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Microwave sensors (present and future)

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Microwave sensors with their unique capabilities offer certain specific advantages for applications like geological survey for petroleum and mineral prospecting, crop and vegetation monitoring, soil moisture detection, water resources management etc. They are also capable of measuring ocean surface wind speed and direction, wave heights, wave spectra etc and to map the ocean wave structure. This paper presents the basic physics and description of microwave remote sensing, both passive and active, sensors and reviews the present status and future possibilities in sensor technology and applications.

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  1. Communications Area, Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, 380 053, Ahmedabad, India

    O. P. N. Calla

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Calla, O.P.N. Microwave sensors (present and future). Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Engg. Sci.) 6, 109–119 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02842928

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