Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces Techniques and Methods [Hardcover]

Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surface: Techniques and Methods brings essential coverage of the space techniques of observation on continental surfaces. The authors explore major applications and provide detailed chapters on physical principles, physics of measurement, and data processing for each technique, bringing readers up-to-date descriptions of techniques used by leading scientists in the field of remote sensing and Earth observation.

• Presents clear-and-concise descriptions of modern methods
• Explores current remote sensing techniques that include physical aspects of measurement (theory) and their applications
• Provides physical principles, measurement, and data processing chapters that are included for each technique described

1: Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

2: SAR Imaging using Coherent Modes of Diversity: SAR Polarimetry, Interferometry and Tomography

3: The Principles of DTM Reconstruction from SAR Images

4: Principles of Radar Satellite Altimetry for Application on Inland Waters

5: Passive Low Frequency Microwaves: Principles, Radiative Transfer, Physics of Measurements

6: Space Gravimetry Using GRACE Satellite Mission: Basic Concepts

7: The Reflected Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS-R): from Theory to Practice

8: Data Assimilation of Satellite Observations

Presents recent developments in remote sensing, exploring analytical techniques that have made remote Earth observation more efficient