ZHANG Zhong-jun~1, SUN Guo-qing~2. An Estimation of Brightness Temperature for Vegetated Surface by Matrix Doubling Method and IEM[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2005, (5): 531-536. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20050577.
a model is proposed to estimate the brightness temperature of vegetated surface based on ray tracing technique to account for increasing multiple scattering effects as frequencies goes higher. The vegetation layer is composed of discrete scatters such as leaf
branch and stalk. The multiple scattering inside the vegetation layer and that between the vegetation and soil surface is accounted for by Matrix Doubling. The surface emission is calculated by IEM(Integral Equation Method) algorithm. Simulation results at higher frequency show that the emission from vegetation layer is dominant
and that the vegetation has obvious extinction to surface. A good agreement is obtained by comparison of the simulation with air-bone PSR(Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer) C\|band data