Computation of radar scattering from heterogeneous rough soil using the finite-element method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3461-3469

  Khankhoje, Uday K ^a,b   Van Zyl, Jakob J ^a   Cwik, Thomas A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering by rough surfaces; finite element methods (FEMs); Monte Carlo simulations; subsurface sensing

Indexed keywords

CO-POLARIZED PHASE DIFFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY ROUGH SURFACES; HETEROGENEOUS SUBSTRATES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD; SUB-SURFACE SENSING;

BACKSCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BACKSCATTER; BARE SOIL; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROFILE; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 84878133528     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2225431     Document Type: Article

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