Evaluation of IEM, dubois, and oh radar backscatter models using airborne L-Band SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4966-4979

  Panciera, Rocco ^a   Tanase, Mihai A ^a   Lowell, Kim ^a   Walker, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airborne radar; scattering; soil; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; POLARIZATION; SCATTERING; SOILS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS; AIRBORNE RADARS; CALIBRATION FUNCTIONS; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATION MODELS; ROUGHNESS CORRELATION; SURFACE SCATTERING MODEL;

BACKSCATTERING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; PREDICTION; SCATTERING; SOIL SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896317758     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2286203     Document Type: Article

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