RS 807
Course Name:
Microwave Remote Sensing
Programme:
M.Tech(RS&GIS)
Category:
Elective Courses (Ele)
Credits (L-T-P):
3(3-0-0)
Content:
- Electromagnetics:Fundamental background information.,
- Electric and magnetic fields, waves,and dielectrics,Coordinate systems, and the divergence and Stokes' theorems.,
- Faraday's law and the Maxwell-Ampere law., Maxwell's equations, time-harmonic form, Plane wave propagation, general relationship between E and H.,
- Polarization, propagation in a lossy medium, propagation of electromagnetic power.
- Characteristics of antenna patterns.
- Radiometry: Passive microwave remote sensing, Polarized radiation, coherence, radiometry vs. radar. Fundamental radiometric units, source of brightness, and the Planck law.
- Irradiance, and absorptivity, emissivity,reflectivity, transmissivity. adiative transfer, simple examples, and atmospheric structure and composition.
References:
Ulaby, F. T., R. K. Moore, and A.K. Fung, Microwave Remote Sensing: Active and Passive, Vol. I
Microwave Remote Sensing Fundamentals and Radiometry, Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program, Reading, Massachusetts, 1981, 456 pages.
Ulaby, F. T., R. K. Moore, and A.K. Fung, Microwave Remote Sensing: Active and Passive, Vol. II
Radar Remote Sensing and Surface Scattering and Emission Theory, Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program, Reading, Massachusetts, 1982, 609 pages.
Department:
Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics
