Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing

• Main Author: Woodhouse, Iain H
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton, Fla CRC Press 2006; CRC, Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Microwave remote sensing; Synthetic Aperture Radar; Radar Cross-section; Forward Model; Em Wave; Multi-year Ice; MLS; Scattering Phase Centre; Special Sensor Microwave Imager; Stokes Vector; Microwave Radiometers; Incidence Angle; Topographic Distortion; Em Radiation; Path Length Difference; Brightness Temperature; Multiyear Ice; Aperture Synthesis; Range Resolution; Passive Microwave; Microwave Altimeter; Water Cloud Model; Radiative Transfer Equation; Microwave Remote Sensing; Em Spectrum; Reference Surface

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing offers an extensive overview for technically oriented undergraduates and graduate students. Following a brief summary of the field and a history of the use of microwaves, the book explores the physical properties of microwaves and the polarimetric properties...