Glacier surface melt monitoring using Sentinel-1 SAR backscattering coefficient and polarimetric decomposition features at Greenland ice sheet by Huimin Jiao, Gang Li, Zhuoqi Chen, Xiao Cheng

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Transmit Power-Efficient Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing and Backscatter Communication by Shayan Zargari, Diluka Galappaththige, Chintha Tellambura

“…The BS simultaneously detects backscatter tags and communicates with the user using the same time and frequency resources. …”
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Integrating Remote Sensing and Proximal Sensors for the Detection of Soil Moisture and Salinity Variability in Coastal Areas by Yan GUO, Zhou SHI, Lian-qing ZHOU, Xi JIN, Yan-feng TIAN, Hong-fen TENG

“…Soil moisture closely correlates radar scattering coefficient, and a simplified inversion model was built based on a backscattering coefficient extracted from multi-polarization data of ALOS/PALSAR and in situ soil moisture measured by a time domain reflectometer to detect soil moisture variations. …”
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Research on Wavelength-Shifting Fiber Scintillator for Detecting Low-Intensity X-Ray Backscattered Photons by Baolu Yang, Zhe Yang, Xin Wang, Baozhong Mu, Jie Xu, Cheng Yang, Hong Li

“…The influences of ray source energy, detection area, number of WSFs, and coupling mechanism on detection efficiency were simulated. …”
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A Monte Carlo simulation of gamma-ray backscattering from concrete shields coated with nanoparticle layers by Arian Nikrah, Payvand Taherparvar, Alireza Sadremomtaz

“…Although the scattering characteristics of nanocomposite shielding materials have been widely investigated, their backscattering behavior remains unexplored in scientific studies. …”
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Enhanced breast tumor localization with DRA antenna backscattering and GPR algorithm in microwave imaging by Anupma Gupta, Sachin Kumar Yadav, Anand Deva Durai C, Vipan Kuamr, Mohammed H. Alsharif, Peerapong Uthansakul, Monthippa Uthansakul

“…Microwave imaging technology has higher accuracy of detection in the variation of tissue properties. In this article, a dielectric resonator based wide band antenna is designed and investigated for microwave imaging (MWI) of early breast cancer detection due to its improved accuracy. …”
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Application of laser light backscattering for qualitative and quantitative assessment of dilution of clear and cloudy apple juices by Hoa Xuan Mac, Nga Thi Thanh Ha, László Friedrich, Lien Le Phuong Nguyen, László Baranyai

“…This study investigated the potential of laser light backscattering imaging (LLBI) for detecting water addition in apple juices. …”
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Intra-Symbol Differential Amplitude Shift Keying-Aided Blind Detector for Ambient Backscatter Communication Systems by Shuaijun Ma, Peng Wei, Sa Xiao, Jianquan Wang, Wanbin Tang, Wei Xiang

“…By leveraging the intra-symbol differential amplitude shift keying (IDASK) scheme, this detector effectively redirects the majority of the DLI energy towards the largest eigenvalue of the received sample covariance matrix, thereby utilizing the second largest eigenvalue for efficient symbol detection. In addition, this paper conducts theoretical performance analyses of the proposed detector in terms of the false alarm probability, missed detection probability, and the bit-error rate (BER) lower bound. …”
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An appraisal of backscatter removal and refraction calibration models for improving the performance of vision-based mapping and navigation in shallow underwater environments by Fickrie Muhammad, Poerbandono, Harald Sternberg, Eka Djunarsjah, Hasanuddin Z Abidin

“…Furthermore, additional visual-inertial datasets quantify the overall performance, especially in retrieving metric positioning information. The research shows efficient backscatter removal improves feature detection robustness, especially in murky water conditions. …”
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Passive-Compensation-Based Stable RF Phase Dissemination for Multiaccess Trunk Fiber Link With Anti-GVD and Anti-Backscattering Function by Yajie Cui, Tianwei Jiang, Song Yu, Ruihuan Wu, Wanyi Gu

“…Signals with different radio frequencies at the same wavelength are employed in the forward and backward transmissions to efficiently suppress the effect of the GVD and Rayleigh backscattering at the same time. …”
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Integration of Optical and Microwave Satellite Data for Monitoring Vegetation Status in Sorghum Fields by Simone Pilia, Giacomo Fontanelli, Leonardo Santurri, Enrico Palchetti, Giuliano Ramat, Fabrizio Baroni, Emanuele Santi, Alessandro Lapini, Simone Pettinato, Simonetta Paloscia

“…Experimental data and electromagnetic models have been combined to relate backscattering from S-1 and optical indices from S-2 to plant conditions, which were evaluated by measuring PRI, plant water content (PWC), and soil water content. …”
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High SNR Φ-OTDR Based on Frequency and Wavelength Diversity With Differential Vector Aggregation Method by Jinfeng Gu, Bin Lu, Junqi Yang, Zhaoyong Wang, Lei Ye, Qing Ye, Ronghui Qu, Haiwen Cai

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A Quarter Ellipsoidal Reflector Enhancing Fluorescence Collection Efficiency For Multiphoton Microscopes by Yingshun Xu, Nannan Liu, Xuehui Bao, Bin Liu, Hui Shen

“…The method is also validated by imaging turbid phantoms and <italic>ex vivo</italic> biological tissue. Quantum efficiency (QE) corrected experimental results obtained by our method are comparable with those obtained by a nondescanned detection (NDD) scheme of a commercially available multiphoton microscope system. …”
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Evaluation of Scintillation Counter Detector Using Gamma Radiation for Gold Detection by Julia Ragab Khalil, Wael Hessen Alawad, Adil Elrayah, Ali Sulaiman Mohamed, Mubark Dirrar Abdallah, Azher S Barrak

“…This technique can detect the backscattered gamma radiation emitted from the samples. …”
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Quantitative evaluation of dislocation density in SUS316L utilizing non-contact microwave reflection method by Guodong WANG, Shaojie GU, Yasuhiro KIMURA, Yuhki TOKU, Yang JU

“…By establishing a linear correlation, we demonstrate the feasibility of evaluating dislocation density with a minimum detectable difference of 1.824 × 1013 m-2 using the dedicated microwave system under the designed conditions in this study. …”
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Invisible aerosol layers: improved lidar detection capabilities by means of laser-induced aerosol fluorescence by B. Gast, C. Jimenez, A. Ansmann, M. Haarig, R. Engelmann, F. Fritzsch, A. A. Floutsi, H. Griesche, K. Ohneiser, J. Hofer, M. Radenz, H. Baars, P. Seifert, U. Wandinger

“…A smoke–cirrus case study suggests an influence of the aerosol layer on cloud formation, as it seems to affect the elastic-backscatter coefficient within the cloud passing time. …”
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A Comparative Crash-Test of Manual and Semi-Automated Methods for Detecting Complex Submarine Morphologies by Vasiliki Lioupa, Panagiotis Karsiotis, Riccardo Arosio, Thomas Hasiotis, Andrew J. Wheeler

“…A large number of (more than 7000) small but prominent reefs were detected, which made manual mapping extremely time-consuming. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL TRIAL OF USING THE SCIENTIFIC MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER DESIGNED TO DETECT FISH IN A WILD FIELD OF VIEW by G. M. Abdurakhmanov, A. A. Teymurov, A. A. Gadzhiev, A. N. Dolgov, A. N. Kutsenko, M. A. Raskita, S. V. Tretyakov

“…Values of the volume backscattering coefficient obtained both from the multibeam echosounder and the Simrad EK60 echosounder are rather close. …”
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PRICOS: A Robust Paddy Rice Index Combining Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Features for Improved Mapping Efficiency by Yifeng Lou, Gang Yang, Weiwei Sun, Ke Huang, Jingfeng Huang, Lihua Wang, Weiwei Liu

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Machine Learning-Based Harvest Date Detection and Prediction Using SAR Data for the Vojvodina Region (Serbia) by Gordan Mimić, Amit Kumar Mishra, Miljana Marković, Branislav Živaljević, Dejan Pavlović, Oskar Marko

“…Data from the Sentinel-1 satellite were used in the study. Time series of backscattering coefficients for vertical–horizontal (VH) and vertical–vertical (VV) polarisations, both from ascending and descending orbits, were collected from Google Earth Engine. …”
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