"This book is based on authors' extensive involvement in large Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mapping projects, targeting the health of an important earth ecosystem, the tropical forests. It highlights past achievements, explains the underlying physics that allow the radar pract…
"This book is based on authors' extensive involvement in large Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mapping projects, targeting the health of an important earth ecosystem, the tropical forests. It highlights past achievements, explains the underlying physics that allow the radar pract…
La 4ème de couv. indique : "Radar scattering and imaging of rough surfaces is an active interdisciplinary area of research with many practical applications in fields such as mineral and resource exploration, ocean and physical oceanography, military and national defense, planeta…
Wave polarimetry -- Scattering polarimetry -- Polarization matrices -- H/A/[alpha symbol] polarimetric decomposition -- Compound scattering matrix -- Scattering mechanisms and modeling -- Scattering power decomposition -- Correlation and similarity -- Polarimetric synthetic aper…
"Radar polarimetry has been used for the precise monitoring of Earth's surface. This book explains the basic polarimetry concept and its diverse applications such as deforestation, tree classification, landslide detection, tsunamis, volcano eruptions and ash distribution, snow a…