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9780415271233

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415271233

  • ISBN10:

    0415271231

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-11-02
  • Publisher: CRC Press

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Summary

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing offers an extensive overview of this versatile and extremely precise technology for technically oriented undergraduates and graduate students.This textbook emphasizes an important shift in conceptualization and directs it toward students with prior knowledge of optical remote sensing: the author dispels any linkage between microwave and optical remote sensing. Instead, he constructs the concept of microwave remote sensing by comparing it to the process of audio perception, explaining the workings of the ear as a metaphor for microwave instrumentation.This volume takes an "application-driven" approach. Instead of describing the technology and then its uses, this textbook justifies the need for measurement then explains how microwave technology addresses this need.Following a brief summary of the field and a history of the use of microwaves, the book explores the physical properties of microwaves and the polarimetric properties of electromagnetic waves. It examines the interaction of microwaves with matter, analyzes passive atmospheric and passive surface measurements, and describes the operation of altimeters and scatterometers. The textbook concludes by explaining how high resolution images are created using radars, and how techniques of interferometry can be applied to both passive and active sensors.

Table of Contents

Why Microwaves?
1(6)
Overview of Microwave Systems
2(5)
Information from Passive Microwave Imagers
2(1)
Information from Passive Microwave Sounders
2(1)
Information from Active Microwave Instruments
3(2)
How Can This Information be Used?
5(2)
A Brief History of Microwaves
7(16)
In the beginning...
8(1)
Out of the Darkness: Maxwell and Hertz
8(6)
Radios, Death Rays and Radar
14(4)
The Venus Ruler and Little Green Men
18(2)
Imaging Radar
20(1)
Microwave Remote Sensing from Space
21(1)
Further Reading
22(1)
Physical Fundamentals
23(42)
Physical Properties of EM Waves
23(6)
Electromagnetic Radiation as Waves
24(4)
Complex Wave Description
28(1)
Energy and Power of Waves
29(4)
Polarisation
31(2)
Combination of Waves
33(4)
Coherence
34(3)
The Most Important Section in This Book
37(16)
Phase as a (Relative) Distance Measure
37(2)
Combining Two Waves in 2-D
39(4)
Quantifying the Interference Pattern
43(2)
Passive Case
45(2)
Multiple Source Interference Pattern
47(1)
Beamwidth and Angular Resolution
48(2)
Huygens' Wavelets
50(1)
More on Coherence
51(2)
Propagation of Microwaves
53(4)
Through Lossy Media
55(1)
Moving Sources
56(1)
Where Do Microwaves Come From?
57(7)
How Are They Produced in Nature?
57(3)
Radiation Laws
60(2)
How Are Microwaves Produced Artificially?
62(2)
Further Reading
64(1)
Polarimetry
65(28)
Describing Polarised Waves
66(2)
Summary of Linear Basis
67(1)
Superposition of Polarised Waves
68(5)
Representing Polarisation
73(9)
Poincare sphere
73(1)
Mathematical Description
74(1)
Stokes Vector
74(2)
Brightness Stokes Vector
76(1)
Partially Polarised Waves
76(2)
The Stokes Scattering Matrix
78(2)
The Scattering Matrix
80(1)
Target Vector
80(1)
Covariance Matrix
81(1)
Passive Polarimetry
82(1)
Polarimetry in Radar
82(3)
Radar Polarimeters
82(1)
Polarimetric Synthesis and Response Curves
83(2)
Important Polarimetric Properties
85(6)
Unpolarised Power
87(1)
Degree of Polarisation and Coefficient of Variation
87(1)
Polarimetric Ratios
88(1)
Coherent Parameters
89(1)
Polarimetric Decomposition
90(1)
Further Reading
91(2)
Microwaves in the Real World
93(58)
Continuous Media and the Atmosphere
93(9)
Radiative Transfer Theory
94(2)
Microwave Brightness Temperature
96(2)
Spectral Lines
98(2)
Line Broadening
100(1)
Faraday Rotation
101(1)
Interaction With Discrete Objects
102(10)
Diffraction
103(1)
Importance of Diffraction
104(1)
Scattering
105(1)
Radar Cross-section
106(4)
Importance of Scattering Theory
110(2)
Scattering and Emission from Volumes
112(6)
Transmission Through Volumes
113(1)
Emission
114(2)
Scattering
116(2)
Reflection and Emission from Smooth Surfaces
118(6)
Scattering from Smooth Boundaries
120(3)
Emission from Smooth Boundaries
123(1)
Summary
124(1)
Scattering and Emission from Rough Surfaces
124(3)
Definition of ``Rough''
124(1)
Effects of Roughness
125(1)
Summary
126(1)
Non-Random (Periodic) Surfaces
127(1)
Scattering and Emission from Natural Surfaces
128(16)
Oceans and Lakes
129(3)
Hydrometeors
132(1)
Ice and Snow
133(1)
Freshwater Ice
134(1)
Glacial Ice
135(1)
Sea Ice
136(2)
Bare Rock and Deserts
138(1)
Soils
139(3)
Vegetation
142(2)
Special Scatterers
144(5)
Corner Reflectors
144(2)
Moving Targets
146(1)
Mixed Targets
147(2)
Further Reading
149(2)
Detecting Microwaves
151(28)
General Approach
151(2)
Conceptual Approach to Microwave Systems
153(1)
A Word of Warning
154(1)
Basic Microwave Radiometer
154(1)
The Antenna
154(9)
Parabolic Antennas
155(2)
The Dipole Antenna
157(2)
Array Antennas
159(1)
Antenna Properties
160(3)
The Receiver
163(2)
Detector
165(1)
Coherent Systems
165(1)
Active Systems
166(1)
System Performance
167(2)
Noise and Sensitivity
167(1)
Sensitivity Considerations for Receivers
167(2)
Other Sources of Uncertainty
169(1)
Calibration
169(7)
Antenna Calibration
172(1)
Verification and Validation
173(1)
Types of Calibration
173(2)
Strategies for Calibrating Receivers
175(1)
Final Remarks on Calibration
176(1)
Further Reading
177(2)
Atmospheric Sounding
179(26)
Atmospheric Sounding
180(4)
The Need for Measurements
180(1)
The Earth's Atmosphere
181(1)
Water Vapour and Oxygen
182(1)
Clouds and Precipitation
183(1)
Ozone
183(1)
Chlorine Monoxide
184(1)
Other Relevant Measurements
184(1)
Principles of Measurement
184(2)
Theoretical Basis of Sounding
186(9)
The Forward Model
186(2)
Simple Formulation of the Forward Model
188(1)
The Inverse Model
189(2)
Solving the Inverse Problem
191(3)
The Influence Functions
194(1)
Viewing Geometries
195(5)
Nadir Sounding
195(2)
Limb Sounding
197(3)
Passive Rainfall Mapping
200(2)
The Need for Measurements
200(1)
Principles of Measurement
200(1)
Emission Method
201(1)
Scattering Method
201(1)
Further Reading
202(3)
Passive Imaging
205(16)
Principles of Measurement
206(3)
Background
206(1)
Practical Radiometers
206(1)
Viewing Geometries
207(1)
The Generic Forward Model
207(2)
Oceans
209(4)
The Need for Measurements
209(2)
Principles of Measurement: SST
211(1)
Principles of Measurement: Ocean Salinity
212(1)
Principles of Measurement: Ocean Winds
213(1)
Sea Ice
213(4)
The Need for Measurements
213(1)
Sea Ice Concentration
214(3)
Land
217(3)
The Need for Measurements
217(1)
The Forward Problem Over Land
218(1)
Empirical Approaches to Snow Depth
219(1)
A Final Comment on Passive Polarimetry
220(1)
Further Reading
220(1)
Active Microwaves
221(38)
Principles of Measurement
222(3)
What is RADAR?
223(1)
Basic Radar Operation
224(1)
The Generic Equations of Radar Performance
225(6)
The Radar Equation
225(2)
Range resolution
227(4)
Radar Altimeters
231(16)
The Need for Altimeter Measurements
232(3)
Altimeter Geometry
235(1)
Instrumentation
236(1)
Echo Shape Analysis
237(4)
Range Ambiguity
241(2)
Accuracy of Height Retrievals
243(2)
Scanning Altimeters
245(1)
Calibration and Validation
246(1)
Improving Directionality
247(3)
Sub-Beamwidth Resolution
248(1)
Synthetic Aperture Altimeters
249(1)
Scatterometers
250(7)
The Need for Scatterometer Measurements
251(1)
General Operation
252(1)
Rain Radar
253(1)
Windscatterometers
254(3)
Polarimetric Scatterometers
257(1)
Further Reading
257(2)
Imaging Radar
259(46)
The Need for Imaging Radar
259(6)
Oceans
260(1)
Sea Ice
261(1)
Terrestrial Surfaces
262(1)
The Water Cloud Model for Vegetation
263(1)
Other Uses of Radar Imagery
264(1)
What is an Image?
265(2)
Radar Image Construction
267(1)
Side-Looking Airborne Radar
268(3)
Ground Range resolution
269(1)
Azimuth Resolution
270(1)
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
271(9)
Aperture Synthesis: A Doppler Interpretation
271(4)
Aperture Synthesis: A Geometric Explanation
275(3)
Geometry vs Doppler
278(2)
SAR Focussing
280(1)
Radar equation for SAR
280(1)
Geometric Distortions in Radar Images
281(3)
Lay-over and Foreshortening
281(1)
Radar Shadow
282(1)
Motion Errors
283(1)
Moving Targets
284(1)
Operational Limits
284(3)
Ambiguities
285(1)
Coverage vs PRF
286(1)
Other SAR Modes
287(1)
ScanSAR Operation
287(1)
Spotlight Mode
287(1)
Working With SAR Images
287(13)
Speckle
289(3)
Speckle Statistics
292(4)
Speckle Filtering
296(1)
Geometric Correction
297(2)
Limitations of Geometric Correction
299(1)
SAR Data Formats
300(1)
Extracting Topography from SAR Images
301(2)
Stereo SAR Radargrammetry
302(1)
SAR Clinometry
302(1)
Further Reading
303(2)
Interferometry
305(38)
The Need for Interferometric Measurements
305(1)
Principles of Interferometry
306(4)
Phase Measurements
306(1)
Application of Dual Systems
307(2)
Interferometry for Resolving Direction
309(1)
Passive Imaging Interferometry
310(2)
Radar Interferometry
312(19)
Interferometric Altimetry
312(1)
Interferometric SAR
313(2)
InSAR Viewing Geometries
315(10)
Interferometric Coherence Magnitude
325(2)
Decorrelation
327(2)
Summary of Decorrelation
329(2)
Practical DEM Generation
331(2)
InSAR Processing Chain
332(1)
Vegetation Height Estimation
333(3)
Single Frequency
334(1)
Dual-Frequency
334(1)
Polarimetric Interferometry and Multibaseline Interferometry
335(1)
SAR Tomography
335(1)
Differential SAR Interferometry
336(4)
Considerations and Limitations
338(1)
Atmospheric Water Vapour
339(1)
Permanent Scatterer Interferometry
340(1)
Along-Track Interferometry
341(1)
Further Reading
342(1)
A Summary of Useful Mathematics
343(10)
Angles
343(1)
Degrees
343(1)
Radians
343(1)
Steradian (solid angle)
344(1)
Some Useful Trigonometric Relations
344(1)
Logs and Exponentials
344(2)
Some Fundamental Properties
345(1)
Special values
345(1)
Series Expansions
346(1)
Complex Numbers
346(3)
Vectors
349(1)
Law of Vector Algebra
349(1)
Cross or Vector Product
349(1)
Matrices
350(3)
Matrix Algebra
352(1)
bibliography 353(4)
index 357

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