Title :
Active Remote Sensing of Layered Random Media
Author :
Zuniga, Michael A. ; Habashy, Tarek M. ; Kong, Jin Au
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Abstract :
Analytical expressions for the backscattering cross sections have been derived for active remote sensing of an arbitrary number of random layers. These results are applicable to the interpretation of radar backscattering from vegetation and snow-ice fields. We illustrate the results by matching experimental data using the model of a three-layer random medium with air above and ground below.
Keywords :
Backscatter; Earth; Electromagnetic scattering; Geoscience; Gold; Green´s function methods; Radar scattering; Random media; Remote sensing; Vegetation mapping;
Journal_Title :
Geoscience Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TGE.1979.294658
