Over the last few years satellite remote sensing has become a standard tool for monitoring the properties and the evolution of vegetation on Earth. This book addresses primarily the role that polarimetric and interferometric radars play in forest remote sensing. The first two chapters introduce the basics of synthetic aperture radars and microwave scattering modeling. Chapter three treats the topic of polarimetric interferometry and presents a physical model of decorrelation that occurs in forest canopies observed by a repeat-pass radar interferometer. Chapter four deals with the topic of...