Improved characterization of land surface processes by means of synergistically coupled land surface and microwave backscattering models
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A new microwave backscattering model for vegetated areas was developed. It enables the separation of the soil and vegetation contributions to the backscattering coefficient, which is crucial to obtain reliable simulation results for different imaging geometries. It is shown, that the vegetation influence on the signal can be directly derived from ENVISAT ASAR alternating polarization data. It is shown that it is dependant on plant biophysical variables.
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