Backscatter

"Energy, when hitting a target, can be scattered in many directions. The part of the energy that is scattered back in the exact direction where it came from, is "backscattered"." (Natural Resources Canada/Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, 2015)

Sources

"Glossary of remote sensing terms". Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. Last modified November 25, 2015.
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/node/9483.
Accessed February 1, 2019.

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