New Approach for Determining the Complex Dielectric Constant of Vegetation Leaves

A new approach for modeling the vegetation leaves in the X-band is presented. Here, as an example a corn leaf is considered, where it is assumed to be a superposition of a cylindrical dielectric post and a very thin dielectric sheet. We determine the complex dielectric constant by a simulation model from measured S-parameters.

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