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Radiation, Volume Scattering

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Definition

Volume scattering. Multiple scattering events taking place when electromagnetic wave inside a medium containing scatterers with discrete dielectric properties.

Radiative transfer. The transport of electromagnetic radiation power, scattered or absorbed, while propagating through a medium containing inhomogeneities.

Specific intensity. The instantaneous radiation power per unit area, per unit frequency interval at a specific frequency, at a position inside the medium, and in a specific direction per unit solid angle.

Independent scattering. Assumption of particles being far apart from each other, separation much greater than the incident wavelength, such that no correlation of scattered fields from different scatterers.

Introduction

The volumetric scattering effects play an important role in radar remote sensing of geophysical media (Tsang et al., 1985; Tsang and Kong, 2001). The volume scattering contributes to the bistatic scattering in the active radar remote sensing. In...

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  1. Paul Allen Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Campus Box 352500, 98195-2500, Seattle, WA, USA

    Leung Tsang

  2. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, USA

    Kung-Hau Ding

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    Eni G. Njoku

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Tsang, L., Ding, KH. (2014). Radiation, Volume Scattering. In: Njoku, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36699-9_150

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