ZHANG Wei, JIN Ya-qiu. Image Simulation of High Resolution Radar for Fully Polarimetric Scattering from Heterogeneous Canopy Surface[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2001, (2): 86-89. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20010202.
Employing the Mueller matrix solution of random non-spherical particles
fully polarimetric scattering from heterogeneous canopy surfaces with 3-dimensional spatial structure is calculated. By using the ray tracing method
the scattering from all cells of scatters under a certain radar resolution is mapped into the image pixels. The radar images are simulated for different spatial structures such as number and density of trees
underlying land media
embedded target
etc. It is also compared with the AirSAR image for data validation and image physics.