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Jin Au Kong, Editor

Asrar • THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING

Crane • ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION THROUGH RAIN

Curlander and McDonough • SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR: SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING

Elachi and van Zyl • INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS AND TECHNIQUES OF REMOTE SENSING, Second Edition

Haykin, Lewis, Raney, and Rossiter • REMOTE SENSING OF SEA ICE AND ICEBERGS

Haykin and Steinhardt • ADAPTIVE RADAR DETECTION AND ESTIMATION

Janssen • ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING BY MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY

Landgrebe • SIGNAL THEORY METHODS IN MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING

Liang • QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING OF LAND SURFACES

Maffett • TOPICS FOR A STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF RADAR CROSS SECTIONS

Steinberg and Subbaram • MICROWAVE IMAGING TECHNIQUES

Szekielda • SATELLITE MONITORING OF THE EARTH

Tsang, Kong, and Ding • SCATTERING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS

Tsang, Kong, Ding, and Ao • SCATTERING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES: NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS

Tsang and Kong • SCATTERING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES: ADVANCED TOPICS

Udd • FIBER OPTIC SMART STRUCTURES

Third Edition

Charles Elachi and Jakob van Zyl

California Institute of TechnologyPasadena, California, USA

This edition first published 2021

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Elachi, Charles, author. | Van Zyl, Jakob, 1967– author.

Title: Physics and techniques of remote sensing / Charles Elachi and Jakob van Zyl.

Description: Third edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2021. | Series: Wiley series in remote sensing | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020051941 (print) | LCCN 2020051942 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119523017 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119523123 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119523086 (epub)