Droughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making
understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water …

Observations from spaceborne radar contain considerable information about vegetation
dynamics. The ability to extract this information could lead to improved soil moisture …

Vegetation is a key element in the energy, water and carbon balances over the land
surfaces and is strongly impacted by climate change and anthropogenic effects. Remotely …

Research has shown that soil moisture information can be retrieved by passive microwave
remote sensing. This is even possible when there is a vegetation canopy present if the …

Abstract The Michigan Microwave Canopy Scattering model (MIMICS) is based on a first-
order solution of the radiative-transfer equation for a tree canopy comprising a crown layer, a …

The ability of spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) bistatic radar receivers
to sense changes in soil moisture is investigated using observations from the low Earth …

Large-scale crop monitoring and yield estimation are important for both scientific research
and practical applications. Satellite remote sensing provides an effective means for regional …

Information on rice growing areas and on rice growth conditions are necessary in rice
monitoring programs and in studies on the emission of methane from flooded rice fields. The …

A three-dimensional (3-D) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm is used in order to
simulate ground penetrating radar (GPR) for landmine detection. Two bowtie GPR …

A microwave scattering model was developed for layered vegetation based on an iterative
solution of the radiative transfer equation up to the second order to account for multiple …