REMOTE SENSING A Series of Advanced Level Textbooks and Reference Works MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOLUME I Microwave Remote Sensing Fundamentals and Radiometry FAWWAZ T. ULABY RICHARD K. MOORE ADRIAN K. FUNG Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/microwaveremotes0001ulab MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOLUME I Microwave Remote Sensing Fundamentals and Radiometry The Artech House Remote Sensing Library Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Series Editor Microwave Remote Sensing: Fundamentals and Radiometry, Volume I, by F. T. Ulaby, R. K. Moore, and A. K. Fung Microwave Remote Sensing: Radar Remote Sensing and Surface Scattering and Emission Theory, Volume II, by F. T. Ulaby, R. K. Moore, and A. K. Fung Microwave Remote Sensing: From Theory to Applications, Volume III, by F. T. Ulaby, R. K. Moore, and A. K. Fung Radar Polarimetry for Geoscience Applications, by C. Elachi and F. T. Ulaby Flandbook of Radar Scattering Statistics for Terrain, by F. T. Ulaby and M. C. Dobson Handbook of Radar Scattering Statistics for Terrain: Software and User's Manual, by F. T. Ulaby and M. C. Dobson Radargrammetric Image Processing, by F. W. Leberl Understanding Synthetic Aperture Radar Images, by Chris Oliver and Shaun Quegan For further information on these and other Artech House titles, including previously considered out-of-print books now available through our In-Print-Forever® (IPF®) program, contact: Artech House Artech House 685 Canton Street 46 Gillingham Street Norwood, MA 02062 London SW1V 1 AH UK Phone: 781-769-9750 Phone: +44 (0)20-7596-8750 Fax: 781-769-6334 Fax: +44 (0)20-7630-0166 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Find us on the World Wide Web at: www.artechhouse.com MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOLUME I Microwave Remote Sensing Fundamentals and Radiometry FAWWAZ T. ULABY RICHARD K. MOORE ADRIAN K. FUNG Btomas J. Bata Library TRENT UNIVERSITY PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO WSA MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE (in three volumes) Volume I: MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING FUNDAMENTALS AND RADIOMETRY Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Ulaby, Fawwaz T. (Fawwaz Tayssir), 1943- Microwave remote sensing. Contents: v. 1. Microwave remote sensing fundamentals and radiometry. Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Remote sensing-Equipment and supples. 2. Microwave devices. I. Moore, Richard K. II. Fung, Adrian K. HI. Title. IV. Series. G70.6.U4 621.3678 81-17643 ISBN 0-89006-190-4 (vol. 1) AACR2 ISBN 0-89006-193-9 (set) Copyright © 1981 ARTECH HOUSE 685 Canton Street Norwood, MA 02062 All rights reserved. Printed and bound in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. International Standard Book Number: 0-89006-190-4 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81-17643 10 ■!« / To our Families, whose support and encouragement made this work possible