• DocumentCode
    3347671
  • Title

    On the influence of vegetation and soil in microwave backscatter from vegetated surfaces

  • Author

    Rijckenberg, G.J. ; van den Broek, A.C. ; Lemoine, G.G.

  • Author_Institution
    TNO Phys. & Electron. Lab., The Hague, Netherlands
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    34881
  • fDate
    10-14 Jul1995
  • Firstpage
    1783
  • Abstract
    Presents a technique for a decomposition of polarimetric data into a vegetation, a soil and a vegetation-soil component. Results are given for polarimetric L- and C-band data of winter wheat, obtained during the MAC´91 campaign at the Dutch Flevoland testsite
  • Keywords
    S-matrix theory; backscatter; geophysical techniques; radar cross-sections; radar polarimetry; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; soil; C-band; Dutch Flevoland testsite; Holland; L-band; S-matrix; UHF radar; agriculture; decomposition; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; microwave backscatter; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; radar scattering; scattering matrix theory; soil; vegetated surface; vegetation mapping; winter wheat; Backscatter; Covariance matrix; Equations; Needles; Physics; Rough surfaces; Scattering; Soil measurements; Surface roughness; Vegetation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International
  • Conference_Location
    Firenze
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2567-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.1995.524025
  • Filename
    524025