Active and passive zaicrowave remote sensing techniques have demonstrated their
potential for measurements of soil moisture. However, the soil moisture response from them …

Highly accurate observations at various scales on the land surface are urgently needed for
the studies of many areas, such as hydrology, meteorology, and agriculture. With the rapid …

This paper describes the estimation of parameters characterizing the vertical structure of
vegetated land surfaces, from combined interferometric and polarimetric radar data. Physical …

This paper formulates and demonstrates methods for extracting vegetation characteristics
and underlying ground surface topography from interferometric synthetic aperture radar …

The Integral Equation Model (IEM) was previously used in conjunction with an inversion
model to retrieve soil moisture using multifrequency and multipolarization data from …

For an incident plane wave, the field inside a thin scatterer (disk and needle) is estimated by
the generalized Rayleigh-Gans (GRG) approximation. This leads to a scattering amplitude …

Electromagnetic backscattering from a layer of vegetation over a flat lossy ground is studied.
The vegetated region is composed of leaves which are modeled by lossy circular dielectric …

Ecosystem process, biosphere-atmosphere transfer, and carbon exchange models all
require parameterization of the land surface, including land vegetation cover and soil …

Multi-temporal TerraSAR-X, ASAR/ENVISAT and PALSAR SAR data acquired at various
incidence angles and polarizations were analyzed to study the potential of these new …

A scattering model for defoliated vegetation is developed by treating a layer of defoliated
vegetation as a collection of randomly oriented dielectric cylinders of finite length over an …