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4.0 out of 5 stars
Showing age but great reference,
By Steve B (NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Microwave Remote Sensing: Only Available As Individual Volumes, See Pid 585152, 652099, 778009 (Remote sensing library) (Vols 1, 2 & 3) (Hardcover)
These books were printed between 1981 and 1986 so some of the methods discussed are no longer in use. Overall I find these books to be the best reference.They are out of print here but you can purchase them directly from the publisher at a reasonable price [...]
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Unclear Explanations, not for first timers,
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This review is from: Microwave Remote Sensing: Active and Passive, Volume II: Radar Remote Sensing and Surface Scattering and Emission Theory (Hardcover)
Using this book for a RADARS course, me and my friends find that this book is really unclear and poorly written. The author likes to twist words around blurring the explanations. The author does presents ideas in a more colloquial style which makes it easier to read, however I find it unhelpful in anyways to understanding concepts. The author should really learn from Jackson (Classical EM) in ways to present concepts precisely. Another problem: The author refers readers to Vol 1 of this series of books, which does not help because at ~ $$$ perbook, students won't be spending the extra $ to get his Vol 1. I think this book would serve well as a reference for those who have background in RADARS. If you are starting off learning RADARS, this book is not a good idea. Sidenote: Fortunately our professor does a good job complementing this book by adding more explanations and examples.
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This review is from: Microwave Remote Sensing: Active and Passive, Volume II: Radar Remote Sensing and Surface Scattering and Emission Theory (Hardcover)
This book was used as a textbook for a graduate level course I took at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I found it very readable considering the subject.
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In general, terrain scattering consists of rough-surface scattering due to boundary discontinuities and volume scattering due to inhomogeneities in the medium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
integrated precipitable water vapor, renormalization formulation, irregular inhomogeneous layer, measured apparent temperature, natural earth materials, discrete inhomogeneous medium, radar scatterometry, nadir emissivity, temperature weighting functions, absorption loss factor, microwave dielectric properties, microwave radiometric observations, nadir brightness temperature, radiative transfer method, brine volume fraction, noncoherent models, underlying soil surface, calculated brightness temperature, canopy constituents, canopy loss factor, refractive model, rms surface slope, statistical inversion method, antenna beam axis, temperature profile retrieval Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Active Microwave Sensing of Land, Active Microwave Sensing of the Ocean, Passive Microwave Sensing of the Atmosphere, Passive Microwave Sensing of the Ocean, New York, Ocean Radar Imaging, Radio Science, Emission Behavior of Vegetation Canopies, Academic Press, General Topics, Backscattering Behavior of Cultural Vegetation Canopies, Antennas Propag, Beaufort Sea, Survey of Radar Land Applications, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Kansas, Ann Arbor, Day of Year, Mould Bay, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Wind-Vector Radar Scatterometry, Illumination Direction, Goddard Space Flight Center, The Backscattering Behavior of Random Surfaces, Atmospheric Sounding Near New!
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In general, terrain scattering consists of rough-surface scattering due to boundary discontinuities and volume scattering due to inhomogeneities in the medium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
integrated precipitable water vapor, renormalization formulation, irregular inhomogeneous layer, measured apparent temperature, natural earth materials, discrete inhomogeneous medium, radar scatterometry, nadir emissivity, temperature weighting functions, absorption loss factor, microwave dielectric properties, microwave radiometric observations, nadir brightness temperature, radiative transfer method, brine volume fraction, noncoherent models, underlying soil surface, calculated brightness temperature, canopy constituents, canopy loss factor, refractive model, rms surface slope, statistical inversion method, antenna beam axis, temperature profile retrieval Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Active Microwave Sensing of Land, Active Microwave Sensing of the Ocean, Passive Microwave Sensing of the Atmosphere, Passive Microwave Sensing of the Ocean, New York, Ocean Radar Imaging, Radio Science, Emission Behavior of Vegetation Canopies, Academic Press, General Topics, Backscattering Behavior of Cultural Vegetation Canopies, Antennas Propag, Beaufort Sea, Survey of Radar Land Applications, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Kansas, Ann Arbor, Day of Year, Mould Bay, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Wind-Vector Radar Scatterometry, Illumination Direction, Goddard Space Flight Center, The Backscattering Behavior of Random Surfaces, Atmospheric Sounding Near New!
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- Laser speckle and related phenomena (Topics in applied physics ; v. 9) in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Table of Integrals, Series, and Products, Fifth Edition by Alan Jeffrey on page 139
- Handbook of Radar Scattering Statistics for Terrain (Artech House Remote Sensing Library) by Fawwaz T. Ulaby in Front Matter
- Radar Polarimetry for Geoscience Applications (Artech House Remote Sensing Library) by Fawwaz T. Ulaby in Front Matter
- Understanding Synthetic Aperture Radar Images (Artech House Remote Sensing Library) by Chris Oliver in Front Matter
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