Preface I. Polarimetric Scattering and SAR Imagery EM Wave Propagation and Scattering in Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Terrain Topographic Inversion from Single-Pass Polarimetric SAR Image Data by Using Polarimetric Stokes Parameters and Morphological Algorithm Road Detection in Forested Area Using Polarimetric SAR Research on Some Problems about SAR Radiometric Resolution A Fast Image Matching Algorithm for Remote Sensing Applications A New Algorithm of Noised Remote Sensing Image Fusion Based on Steerable Filters Adaptive Noise Reduction of InSAR Data Based on Anisotropic Diffusion Models and Their Applications to Phase Unwrapping II. Scattering from Randomly Rough Surfaces Modeling Tools for Backscattering from Rough Surfaces Pseudo-Nondiffracting Beams from Rough Surface Scattering Surface Roughness Clutter Effects in GPR Modeling and Detection Scattering from Rough Surfaces with Small Slopes Polarization and Spectral Characteristics of Radar Signals Reflected by Sea-surface Simulation of Microwave Scattering from Wind-Driven Ocean Surfaces HF Surface Wave Radar Tests at the Eastern China Sea III. Electromagnetics of Complex Materials Wave Propagation in Plane-Parallel Metamaterial and Constitutive Relations Two Dimensional Periodic Approach for the Study of Left-Handed Metamaterials Numerical Analysis of the Effective Constitutive Parameters of a Random Medium Containing Small Chiral Spheres Wave Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media: From the Helmholtz to the Ginzburg -Landau Equation Transformation of the Spectrum of Scattered Radiation in Randomly Inhomogeneous Abso-rptive Plasma Layer Numerical Analysis of Microwave Heating on Saponification Reaction IV. Scattering from Complex Targets Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Layered Crossed-Gratings of Circular Cylinders Using Lattice Sums Technique Scattering by a Body in a Random Medium A Rigorous Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Multilayered Crossed-arrays of Metallic Cylinders Metallic Cylinders Vector Models of Non-stable and Spatially-distributed Radar Objects Simulation of Algorithm of Orthogonal Signals Forming and Processing Used to Estimate Back Scattering Matrix of Non-stable Radar Objects New Features of Scattering from a Dielectric Film on a Reflecting Metal Substrate A Higher Order FDTD Method for EM Wave Propagation in Collision Plasmas V. Radiative Transfer and Remote Sensing Simulating Microwave Emission from Antarctica Ice Sheet with a Coherent Model Scattering and Emission from Inhomogeneous Vegetation Canopy and Alien Target by Using Three-Dimensional Vector Radiative Transfer (3D-VRT) Equation Analysis of Land Types Using High-resolution Satellite Images and Fractal Approach Data Fusion of RADARSAT SAR and DMSP SSM/I for Monitoring Sea Ice of China’s Bohai Sea Retrieving Atmospheric Temperature Profiles from Simulated Microwave Radiometer Data with Artificial Neural Networks VI. Wave Propagation and Wireless Communication Wireless Propagation in Urban Environments: Modeling and Experimental Verification An Overview of Physics-based Wave Propagation in Forested Environment Angle-of-arrival Fluctuations due to Meteorological Conditions in the Diffraction Zone of C-band Radio Waves, Propagated over the Ground Surface Simulating Radio Channel Statistics Using Ray Based Prediction Codes Measurement and Simulation of Ultra Wideband Antenna Elements The Experimental Investigation of a Ground-placed Radio Complex Synchronization System VII. Computational Electromagnetics Analysis of 3-D Electromagnetic Wave Scattering with the Krylov Subspace FFT Iterative Methods Sparse Approximate Inverse Preconditioned Iterative Algorithm with Block Toeplitz Matrix for Fast Analysis of Microstrip Circuits An Efficient Modified Interpolation Technique for the Translation Operators in MLFMA Efficient Solution of 3-D Vector Electromagnetic Scattering by CG-MLFMA with Partly Approximate Iteration The Effective Constitution at Interface of Different Media Novel Basis Functions for Quadratic Hexahedral Edge Element A Higher Order FDTD Method for EM Wave Propagation in Collision Plasmas Attenuation of Electric Field Eradiated by Underground Source Author Index