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Gamma nought represents the average reflectivity of a horizontal material sample, normalized with respect to the incident area, orthogonal to the incident ray from the radar.
External resources
Henderson, F. M. & Lewis, A. J. (ed.) (1998). Principles & Applications of Imaging RADAR. Manual of Remote Sensing. Third Edition, Volume 2. John Wiley & Sons, USA.