Image Simulation of High Resolution Radar for Fully Polarimetric Scattering from Heterogeneous Canopy Surface
非均匀植被地表全极化散射的高分辨率雷达图像的模拟

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.