Get Understanding Earth Observation: The Electromagnetic PDF

By Domenico Solimini

ISBN-10: 3319256327

ISBN-13: 9783319256320

ISBN-10: 3319256335

ISBN-13: 9783319256337

This quantity addresses the actual beginning of distant sensing. the fundamental grounds are offered in shut organization with the categories of environmental pursuits to observe and with the looking at suggestions. The publication goals at plugging the rather huge hole among the thorough and quantitative description of electromagnetic waves interacting with the Earth's surroundings and the person purposes of Earth statement. it's meant for scientifically literate scholars and execs who plan to realize a primary realizing of distant sensing information and in their info content.

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Microwave emissivity of arboreal vegetation vs. frequency.. . . Microwave emissivity vs. arboreal above-ground biomass .. . . . Microwave crop emissivity vs. observation angle . . . . . . . . . Microwave brightness temperature of snow. . . . . . . . . . . . Snow microwave emissivity vs. water equivalent .. . . . . . . . . Effect of phytoplankton on spectral reflectance of sea . . . . . . Optical image of algal bloom . . . . . . . . . .. . . .

Diffraction from elliptic apertures .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . Geometry of rectangular aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rectangular antenna pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Power pattern of rectangular aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diffraction pattern in X-band SAR image . . .. . . . . . . . . . Diffraction pattern in C-band SAR image.. . .. . .

2. 3 The component tangential to the surface is obtained by the cross-product with the normal n0 . 2 Electromagnetic Power Budget 7 Fig. 1 with reference to Fig. 1. 2 Electromagnetic Power Budget The basic energetic features of the electromagnetic field and of its interaction with the environment are obtained directly from Maxwell’s equations. Consider a source characterized by the impressed electric and magnetic currents Js and Jms and carry out the dot products (Sect. 1) of the terms of the first equation by the co-located magnetic field H and of the terms of the second equation by E r r @B Jms @t @D C J C Js HD @t ED HI .

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