Contents -- Preface -- I. Polarimetric Scattering and SAR Imagery -- EM Wave Propagation and Scattering in Polarimetric SAR Interferometry S.R. Cloude -- 1. Introduction -- 2. COHERENT VECTOR INSAR MODEL -- 3. MULTI-LAYER COHERENT SCATTERING MODEL -- 4.POLARIMETRIC SURFACE SCATTERING MODELS FOR INSAR -- 5. TWO-LAYER COHERENCE MODEL FOR VEGETATED TERRAIN -- 6.DUAL BASELINE PROCESSING -- 7.DUAL FREQUENCY REGULARISATION -- 8. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Terrain Topographic Inversion from Single-Pass Polarimetric S A R Image Data by Using Polarimetric Stokes Parameters and Morphological Algorithm Y. Q. Jin, L. Luo -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE SHIFT OF ORIENTATION ANGLE AS A FUNCTION OF STOKES PARAMETERS -- 3. THE RANGE AND AZIMUTH ANGLES FROM EULER ANGLES TRANSFORMATION -- 4. THE AZIMUTH ANGLE OF EVERY PIXEL IN SAR IMAGE -- 5. AN EXAMPLE OF ALGORITHM IMPLEMETATION -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Road Detection in Forested Area Using Polarimetric SAR G.W Dong, J. Yang, Z.N. Peng, C. Wang, H.Zhang -- 1.Introduction -- 2. Polarimetric Parameters -- 2.2 Polarimetric Entropy -- 3. The Proposed Method -- 4. Calculation Result and Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Research on Some Problems about SAR Radiometric Resolution G.Dong, M. H. Zhu, X. Y Tian, J. Y. Fan -- 1. Preface -- 2. Definitions of radiometric resolution -- 3. The influence of the correlation of samples to radiometric resolution -- 4. The relation between spatial resolution and radiometric resolution -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- A Fast Image Matching Algorithm for Remote Sensing Applications Z.Q. Hou, C.Z. Han, L. Zheng, X. Kang -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Algorithm Description -- 2.1 Circle template selection -- 2.2 Algorithm steps -- 2.2.1 Coarse matching In order to obtain the point -- 2.2.2 Fine matching.

3. Simulation results and Comparative Research -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Reference -- A New Algorithm of Noised Remote Sensing Image Fusion Based on Steerable Filters X . Kang, L. Zheng, C.Z. Hun, Q. Ma, C.H. Zhao -- 1. Transform with Steerable Filters -- 1.1 Design of quadrature pair of steerable filter -- 1.2 Local oriented energy analysis -- 2. Fusion Algorithm of Noised Remote Sensing Images -- 2.1 Image denoising based on steerable filters -- 2.2 Remote sensing image fusion base on steerable filters -- 3. Experiment Results -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Adaptive Noise Reduction of InSAR Data Based on Anisotropic Diffusion Models and Their Applications to Phase Unwrapping C. Wang, X . Gao, H. Zhang -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phase Unwrapping with phase noise treatment -- A. Phase unwrapping concept -- B. Phase noise traits -- C. The algorithms of phase unwrapping -- 3. The Filtering analysis of anisotropic diffusion models -- A. The evolution of PDE image application -- B. Numerical schemes -- C. Digital TV filtering -- 4. Numerical examples and conclusions -- References -- II. Scattering from Randomly Rough Surfaces -- Modeling Tools for Backscattering from Rough Surfaces A. K. Fung, K.S. Chen -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. The Backscattering Model -- 3. APPLICATION OF THE X-POWER CORRELATION -- 3.1 Theoretical trends for like polarization with x-power correlation -- Eflects of changing x -- Efects of rms height -- Efects of correlation length -- Efeects of frequency -- 3.2 Comparison with Measurements and Simulations -- Comparisons with field measurements -- Comparisons with simulations -- 4. EXPONENTIAL-LIKE CORRELATION -- 4.1 Theoretical trends for exponential-like correlation -- Efects of changing x -- Effects of frequency -- 4.2 Comparison with measurements -- 5. A TWO-SCALE CORRELATION FUNCTION -- 6. DISCUSSIONS.

7. REFERENCES -- Pseudo-Nondiffracting Beams from Rough Surface Scattering E.R. Mendez, T.A. Leskova, A.A. Maradudin -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX. THE R-DEPENDENCE OF (

Wave Propagation in Plane-Parallel Metamaterial and Constitutive Relations A. Ishimaru, J. Thomas, S. W Lee, Z Kuga -- 1 TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES OF MATERIAL WITH NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX -- 2 NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX AND BEHAVIOR OF kz1 AND kz2 -- 3 SPECTRUM OF A LINE SOURCE AND ITS IMAGE -- 4 LIMITATION ON PERFECT LENS -- 5 REFLECTION, TRANSMISSION AND EXCITATION OF A SLAB OF ARBITRARY PERMIT- TIVITY AND PERMEABILITY -- 6 GENERALIZED CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS FOR METAMATERIALS BASED ON THE QUASI-STATIC LORENTZ THEORY -- 7 FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM -- 8 INTERACTION MATRIX -- 9 QUASI-STATIC CALCULATION OF Je AND Jm -- 10 SPLIT RING RESONATOR -- 11 CHIRAL MEDIUM CONSISTING OF AN ARRAY OF HELICES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Two Dimensional Periodic Approach for the Study of Left-Handed Metamaterials T.M. Grzegorczyk, L. Ran, X . Zhang, K. Chen, X. Chen, J.A. Kong -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Formulation of the problem -- 3 Evaluation of the periodic Green's function -- 4 Numerical results for rods and SRRs -- 5 Experimental measurements of metamaterials -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Numerical Analysis of the Effective Constitutive Parameters of a Random Medium Containing Small Chiral Spheres Y. Nanbu, T. Matsuoka, M. Tateiba -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EFFECTIVE PROPERTIES OF CHIRAL MIXTURE -- 3. NUMERICAL RESULTS -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Wave Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media: From the Helmholtz to the Ginzburg -Landau Equation M. Gitterman -- References -- Transformation of the Spectrum of Scattered Radiation in Randomly Inhomogeneous Absorptive Plasma Layer G. R Jandieri, G.D. Aburjunia, RG. Jandieri -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formulation of the problem -- 3. Statistical characteristics of received radiation by using complex geometrical optics -- 4. Numerical analysis of the power spectrum -- 5. Conclusion -- References.

Numerical Analysis of Microwave Heating on Saponification Reaction K. Huang, K. Jia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Saponification Reaction and Experimental System -- 1. Saponification reaction -- 2. Experimental System -- 3. Dynamic Equations -- 4. Calculation Model -- 5. Measured and calculated results -- Acknowledgement -- References -- IV. Scattering from Complex Targets -- Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Layered Crossed-Gratings of Circular Cylinders Using Lattice Sums Technique K. Yasumoto, H. T Jia -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FORMULATION -- 2.1 Z-Array -- 2.2 X-Array -- 2.3 Crossed-Array -- 2.4 Layered Crossed-Arrays -- 3. NUMERICAL RESULTS -- 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Acknowledgment -- REFERENCES -- Scattering by a Body in a Random Medium M. Tateiba, Z.Q. Meng, H. El-Ocla -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Formulation -- 3 Numerical Results -- 3.1 Bistatic RCS -- 3.2 Monostatic RCS -- 4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- A Rigorous Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Multilayered Crossed-arrays of Metallic Cylinders H. T. Jia, K. Yasumoto -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Formulation -- 2.1 Z-Array -- 2.2 X-array -- 2.3 Crossed-array -- 2.4 Recursive process for calculating generalized reflection and transmission matrices -- 3 Numerical Examples -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgment -- REFERENCES -- Vector Models of Non-stable and Spatially-distributed Radar Objects A. Surkov, R A. Khlusov, L. Ligthart, G. Sharygin -- 1. Physical model of a spatially-distributed object and its mathematical description -- 2. Response function of a spatially-distributed object -- 3. Model of the vector signal scattered by a spatially-distributed object -- 4. Conclusion -- References.

Simulation of Algorithm of Orthogonal Signals Forming and Processing Used to Estimate Back Scattering Matrix of Non-stable Radar Objects D. Nosov, A. Surkov, V A. Khlusov, L. Ligthart, G. Sharygin.