Title :
A unified microwave radiative transfer model with Jacobian for general stratified media: Extension and numerical results
Author :
Miao Tian ; Gasiewski, Albin J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
A unified microwave radiative transfer (UMRT) model is developed for rapid, stable and accurate level-centric calculation of the thermal radiation emitted from any geophysical medium comprised of planar layers of either densely or tenuously distributed, moderately sized spherical scatterers.
Keywords :
heat radiation; ice; inhomogeneous media; matrix decomposition; radiative transfer; snow; UMRT Jacobian; UMRT model; accurate level-centric calculation; densely distributed sized spherical scatterer; extension result; general stratified media; geophysical medium; moderately sized spherical scatterer; numerical result; planar layers; rapid level-centric calculation; stable level-centric calculation; tenuously distributed sized spherical scatterer; thermal radiation emission; unified microwave radiative transfer model; Jacobian matrices; Microwave FET integrated circuits; Microwave integrated circuits; Microwave technology; Numerical models; Snow; Symmetric matrices;
Conference_Titel :
Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), 2013 US National Committee of URSI National
Conference_Location :
Boulder, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4776-1
DOI :
10.1109/USNC-URSI-NRSM.2013.6525007
