Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing

This extensive introduction to microwave remote sensing, both active and passive, provides a solid primer for advanced, technically oriented undergraduates and graduate students, and also provides an introduction to the subject for other remote sensing researchers and professionals unfamiliar with microwave remote sensing. It begins with a look at the physical principles and properties of microwaves and a look at how they behave in the real world and are detected. It then gives a study of microwave systems: passive systems, basic principles of radar, conceptual issues of radar, and radar imaging and its applications; and moves on to the advanced topics of radar modelling, interferometry and polarimetry before concluding with an appendix giving some useful mathematics, notably trigonometry, logs and exponentials, complex numbers, vectors and matrices.Woodhouse, Iain is the author of 'Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing' with ISBN 9780415271240 and ISBN 041527124X.