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The development of airborne and spaceborne remote sensing technology has expanded man’s ability to observe the surface of the earth and to control its environment. The applications of the technique are in a wide variety of disciplines but, limiting ourselves to natural land surfaces the application areas, presently considered most promising, are geology, hydrology, agriculture and land use inventory.
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Attema, E.P.W. (1978). The Radar Signature of Natural Surfaces and its Application in Active Microwave Remote Sensing. In: Lund, T. (eds) Surveillance of Environmental Pollution and Resources by Electromagnetic Waves. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9897-1_13
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