A study of microwave multiple scattering effects in trees

Author

Zhao, Qianyi ; Utku, Cuneyt ; Lang, Roger H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., George Washington Univ., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

7177

Lastpage

7180

Abstract

Tree scattering problems at L band contain tree components in close proximity of each other. In this case, the multiple scattering effects between tree components become more significant. Scattering properties of a simple tree with primary branches over the ground are studied in this paper. The Method of Moments is applied to find the scattering amplitude of the tree. Results for the bistatic scattering cross sections including the multiple scattering are compared with single scattering results. They suggest that coherent multiple scattering effects in trees can be significant in certain cases.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave scattering; method of moments; microwave propagation; remote sensing; vegetation; vegetation mapping; L band tree scattering problems; bistatic scattering cross section; coherent multiple scattering effects; method of moments; microwave multiple scattering effects; scattering amplitude; Backscatter; Cascading style sheets; Coherence; Moment methods; Remote sensing; Vegetation; electromagnetic scattering; numerical analysis; remote sensing; vegetation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352007

Filename

6352007