Microwave radiometry of vegetation canopies

• Main Author: Chukhlantsev, Alexander A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Environment.; Remote sensing.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Climate change.; Climate Change.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.

Research into microwave radiation from the Earth’s surface in the presence of vegetation canopies, as well as the development of algorithms for retrieval of soil and vegetation parameters from microwave radiometric measurements, have been actively conducted for the last 30 years by scientific groups...

Table of Contents:

• Basics of microwave radiometry
• Physical and electrical properties of soils and vegetation
• Microwave emission from bare soils
• Theory of microwave propagation through vegetation media
• Experimental studies of microwave propagation in vegetation canopies
• Modeling of microwave emission from vegetation canopies
• Experimental research on microwave emission from vegetation canopies
• Vegetation effect in microwave remote sensing
• Microwave radiometry of vegetation canopies in context of global change research.