@InCollection{SantosNarvGraçGonç:2009:PoReSc,
               author = "Santos, Jo{\~a}o Roberto dos and Narvaes, Igor da Silva and 
                         Gra{\c{c}}a, Paulo Maur{\'{\i}}cio Lima de Alencastro and 
                         Gon{\c{c}}alves, F{\'a}bio Guimar{\~a}es",
                title = "Polarimetric responses and sctattering mechanisms of tropical 
                         forests in the Brazilian Amazon",
            booktitle = "Geoscience and Remote Sensing",
            publisher = "IN-TECH",
                 year = "2009",
               editor = "Ho, P. G.",
                pages = "183--206",
              address = "Vienna",
             keywords = "tropical forest, polarimetric signatures, target decomposition, 
                         PALSAR, monitoring.",
             abstract = "This chapter discusses the polarimetric responses of PALSAR 
                         (L-band) data and scattering mechanisms of some tropical forest 
                         typologies based on target decomposition. The fundamentals of 
                         polarimetric theory related to both SAR topics under development 
                         are summarized. For representation of polarimetric signatures, the 
                         cross-section of the forest target was plotted on a bi-dimensional 
                         graphic as a function of the orientation angle, ellipticity angle 
                         and the intensity of co-polar components of the radar signal. The 
                         analysis of scattering mechanisms was done by the association of 
                         entropy and mean alpha values of each sample, plotted in a 
                         bi-dimensional classification space. This study improves the 
                         understanding of the interaction mechanisms between L-band PALSAR 
                         signals and structural parameters supporting the forest inventory 
                         in the Brazilian Amazon region.",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas da Amaz{\^o}nia (INPA)} and {Oregon State University}",
                 isbn = "9789537619",
                label = "lattes: 7502529550855080 2 
                         SantosNarvGra{\c{c}}Gon{\c{c}}:2009:PoReSc",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "santos_polarimetric.pdf",
                  url = "http://intechweb.org/",
        urlaccessdate = "2024, May 03"
}