In order to reveal more deeply the scattering characteristics of wetland vegetation and determine the
microwave scattering model suitable for the inversion of wetland vegetation parameters, the comparison
and analysis between microwave coherent and incoherent scattering models for wetland vegetation in
Poyang Lake area were performed in this paper. In the research, we proposed a coherent scattering model
exclusive for wetland vegetation, in which, Generalized Rayleigh-Gans (GRG) approach and
infinite-length dielectric cylinder were used to calculate single-scattering matrices of wetland vegetation
leaves and stalks. In addition, coherent components produced from interaction among the scattering
mechanisms and different scatterers were also considered and this coherent model was compared with
Michigan Microwave Canopy Scattering (MIMICS) model. The measured data collected in 2011 in
Poyang Lake wetland were used as the input parameters of the coherent and incoherent models. We
simulated backscattering coefficients of VV, VH and HH polarization at C band and made a comparison
between the simulation results and C-band data from the Radarsat-2 satellite. For both coherent and
incoherent scattering model, simulation results for HH and VV polarization were better than the
simulation results for HV polarization. In addition, comparisons between coherent and incoherent
scattering models proved that the coherence triggered by the scattering mechanism and different
scatterers can’t be ignored. In the research, we analyzed differences between coherent and incoherent
scattering models with change of incident angle. In most instances, the difference between coherent and
incoherent scattering models is of the order of several dB.
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