INTERPRETATION AND MODEL ANALYSIS OF MAESTRO-1 FLEVOLAND DATA

A model, based on the Radiative Transfer Theory and the Matrix Doublin g algorithm, is tested with agricultural and forest radar returns meas ured by the JPL AIRSAR sensor over the Flevoland site (The Netherlands ) at P, L and C bands. The test is generally valid, although some disc repancies are noted in the absolute P band values of sigma(0) and not all the input parameters were obtainable from ground measurements. The model is also used to interpret the experimental results and to estim ate the relative importance of the different scattering contributions.