Rayleigh scattering from leaves

The effective dielectric constant, conductivity, and skin depth of an inhomogeneous medium consisting of uniformly distributed and randomly oriented Rayleigh region leaves is developed. Numerical calculations of these parameters for a frequency range from 30 to 300 MHz, leaf water contents from 10 to 50 percent and leaf volume concentrations from 0.03 to 0.1 percent are made.