• DocumentCode
    1021999
  • 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
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1979
  • Firstpage
    296
  • Lastpage
    302
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Geoscience Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9413
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TGE.1979.294658
  • Filename
    4072015