On reconciling ground-based with spaceborne normalized radar cross section measurements

نویسندگان

  • François Baumgartner
  • Jens Munk
  • Kenneth C. Jezek
  • Sivaprasad Gogineni
چکیده

This study examines differences in the normalized radar cross section, derived from ground-based versus spaceborne radar data. A simple homogeneous half-space model, indicates that agreement between the two improves as 1) the distance from the scatterer is increased; and/or 2) the extinction coefficient increases.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing

دوره 40  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002