| MO4.R7: Physical Modeling in Microwave Remote Sensing II | 
| Session Type: Oral | 
| Time: Monday, July 23, 16:50 - 18:30 | 
| Location: Room 4C | 
| Session Chairs: Jiancheng Shi, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Joel Johnson, Ohio State University | 
| 16:50 - 17:10 | 
| MO4.R7.1: MODELING L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR OBSERVATIONS THROUGH DIELECTRIC CHANGES IN SOIL MOISTURE AND VEGETATION OVER SHRUBLANDS | 
| Seungbum Kim; Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 
| Motofumi Arii; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation | 
| Thomas Jackson; USDA | 
| 17:10 - 17:30 | 
| MO4.R7.2: PHYSICS-BASED MODELING OF ACTIVE-PASSIVE MICROWAVE COVARIATIONS FOR GEOPHYSICAL RETRIEVALS | 
| Thomas Jagdhuber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) | 
| Dara Entekhabi; Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
| Narendra N. Das; California Institute of Technology | 
| Moritz Link; German Aerospace Center (DLR) | 
| Martin Baur; University of Bayreuth | 
| Ruzbeh Akbar; Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
| Carsten Montzka; Research Centre Jülich | 
| SeungBum Kim; California Institute of Technology | 
| Simon Yueh; California Institute of Technology | 
| Ismail Baris; Friedrich-Schiller University Jena | 
| 17:30 - 17:50 | 
| MO4.R7.3: FIRST-ORDER SSA MODELING OF THE ANISOTROPIC ROUGH-SOIL BISTATIC SCATTERING | 
| Davide Comite; Sapienza Università di Roma | 
| Nazzareno Pierdicca; Sapienza Università di Roma | 
| 17:50 - 18:10 | 
| MO4.R7.4: ROUGH SURFACE EFFECTS IN BACKSCATTER RETURNS FROM FORESTS | 
| Roger Lang; George Washington University | 
| Can Suer; George Washington University | 
| 18:10 - 18:30 | 
| MO4.R7.5: NMM3D FULL WAVE SIMULATIONS OF VEGETATION AND FOREST EFFECTS IN MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING | 
| Huanting Huang; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 
| Leung Tsang; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 
| Andreas Colliander; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | 
| Rashmi Shah; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | 
| Simon Yueh; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |