Atmospheric effect on microwave polarimetric passive remote sensing of ocean surfaces

Radio Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 521-537

  Yeang, Chen Pang ^a   Yueh, Simon H ^b   Ding, Kung Hau ^a   Kong, Jin Au ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LUMINANCE; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; EXTENDED BOUNDARY CONDITION METHODS; MILLIMETER-WAVE PROPAGATION MODEL; OCEAN BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; POLARIMETRIC PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0000755762     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998RS900030     Document Type: Article

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