Coherence effects in L-band active and passive remote sensing of quasi-periodic corn canopies

Author

Utku, Cuneyt ; Lang, Roger H.

Author_Institution

Goddard Earth Sci. & Technol. Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

13-20 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Due to their highly random nature, vegetation canopies can be modeled using the incoherent transport theory for active and passive remote sensing applications. Agricultural vegetation canopies however are generally more structured than natural vegetation. The inherent row structure in agricultural canopies induces coherence effects disregarded by the transport theory. The objective of this study is to demonstrate, via Monte-Carlo simulations, these coherence effects on L-band scattering and thermal emission from corn canopies consisting of only stalks.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; agriculture; backscatter; crops; vegetation mapping; L-band active remote sensing; L-band scattering; Monte-Carlo simulation; agricultural vegetation canopy; coherence effect; incoherent transport theory; inherent row structure; passive remote sensing; quasiperiodic corn canopy; thermal emission; Backscatter; Brightness temperature; Coherence; Harmonic analysis; Lattices; Simulation; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5117-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6050824

Filename

6050824