Advances in space-borne remote sensing have significantly changed the mankind viewpoint how to observe our own Earth planet. Great amount of remote sensing data and images presents new resources to quantitatively describe and monitor our Earth environment, atmosphere, oceanic and land surfaces. In remote sensing, electromagnetic (EM) scattering, emission and wave propagation, as interaction with the Earth environment, lay the physical basis for understanding and extracting geoscientific information. Study of electromagnetic waves with remote sensing application has become an active and...

Papers prepared for an International Workshop on Wave Propagation, Scattering and Emission scheduled to be held in Shanghai, 1-4 June 2003 but cancelled due to the SARS epidemic.

This work discusses some comprehensive approaches of the vector radiative transfer theory, wave analytic theory in random media, numerical models and applications in both active and passive remote sensing of the atmosphere and earth terrain surface, such as vegetation canopy, snow and ocean.

Advances in space-borne remote sensing have significantly changed the mankind viewpoint how to observe our own Earth planet. In Chapter 1, iterative solutions of multiple scattering and emission from inhomogeneous dense scatter media, and inhomogeneous non-spherical scatter media are discussed.