Aj. Luckman, THE EFFECTS OF TOPOGRAPHY ON MECHANISMS OF RADAR BACKSCATTER FROM CONIFEROUS FOREST AND UPLAND PASTURE, IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 36(5), 1998, pp. 1830-1834
Multifrequency, polarimetric airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) d
ata of a Sitka Spruce plantation and moorland area on upland terrain i
n the United Kingdom are studied to quantify the effects of topography
on mean backscatter and the relative importance of volume, surface, a
nd double-bounce scattering mechanisms as estimated using a simple dec
omposition scattering model.