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- Title
Radar Remote Sensing in Biology.
- Authors
Moore, Richard K.; Simonett, David S.
- Abstract
The article discusses potential applications of radar in agricultural surveys, in mapping natural vegetation, and in forest surveys. It is stated that side-looking airborne radar (SLAR) will undoubtedly receive most application in plant geography and ecology studies. The images produced by such a radar look similar to a continuous strip photograph taken from a very high altitude. The self-illuminating feature of radar help measuring distance and relative velocity by measuring travel time for the radar wave and Doppler frequency shift of this wave. A study done in the Horsefly Mountain area has values of applying multiple polarization for aiding discrimination of plant communities.
- Subjects
RADAR in surveying; FOREST surveys; VEGETATION surveys; NATURAL resources surveys; REMOTE-sensing images; DOPPLER radar; RADAR in agriculture; ELECTRONIC systems; PLANT communities; RADAR in forestry
- Publication
BioScience, 1967, Vol 17, Issue 6, p384
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1293798