Workshop on Microwave Scattering and Emission from the Earth's Surface Held in Washington, D.C. on 11-12 April 1985.

Abstract

Contents: Overview of Dense Medium Modeling; Radiative Transfer Equations Modified for Dense; Laboratory Experiments and Modeling of Multiple Scattering in Dense Discrete Scatters; Transport Theory for Random Waves through Pair-Correlated Discrete Scatters; Microwave Observations of Soil and Snow; Overview of Discrete Media Modeling; Scattering Amplitude Models for Remote Sensing; Remote Sensing in Light of Inverse Scattering Theory; Amplitude Distribution of Composite Terrain Radar Clutter; Overview of Rough Surface Modeling; Topics in Sea Scatter and Rain/Sea Scatter Interactions; A Phase Perturbation Method for Randomly Rough Surfaces; Experimental Observations of Microwave Scattering and Emission from Sea and Glacial Ice; A Numerical Study of the Region of Validity of the Kirchhoff and Small Perturbation Theories in Rough Surface Scattering; C Band Scatterometer; and Multi polarization Synthetic Aperture Radar: Calibration and Early Results.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA178269

Entities

People

  • Keith R. Carver
  • Roger Lang

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • C Band
  • Emission
  • Equations
  • Inverse Scattering
  • Microwaves
  • Observation
  • Perturbation Theory
  • Perturbations
  • Radar
  • Radar Clutter
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scattering
  • Scatterometers
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Radar Systems Engineering.