Vegetation and Forests Effects at L Band Based on Numerical Solutions of Maxwell Equations for SMAP Applications

Ruoxing Gao1, Jongwoo Jeong1, Leung Tsang2, Weihui Gu1, Andreas Colliander3 and Simon H Yueh3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States