An overview of microwave remote sensing research at the University of Malaya, Malaysia

The microwave remote sensing research activities at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, is being carried out mainly at the Electrical Engineering Department. Various types of studies are conducted which include (a) development of convenient, practical and physically based scattering and emission models to elucidate multiple scattering processes in different kinds of random media; (b) development of classification and parameter retrieval algorithms for SAR imagery; (c) measurements and modelling of dielectric properties of tropical vegetative samples. Based on measured data over a frequency spectrum 2-14 GHz, a dielectric model using dual-dispersion technique has been formulated to predict dielectric constants of rubber and oil palm leaves at various moisture contents, and (d) monostatic and bistatic radar cross-section measurements in a microwave anechoic chamber. This paper gives an overview of these activities for the past decade