Optimization of bistatic Radar Configurations for Vegetation Monitoring

Bistatic radars have been recently proposed as an alternative to conventional monostatic radars since they can provide additional information in many fields of remote sensing applications. However, up to now, no bistatic radar campaigns, nor laboratory experiments, having vegetation as the target have been set up. This paper presents theoretical simulations of the bistatic scattering coefficient of crop and forest canopies. The electromagnetic model developed at Tor Vergata has been used to analyse scattering as a function of the observation angle, both in azimuth and elevation, and it will be shown that biomass monitoring can be optimized at out-of-incidence scattering planes.