Microwave tomographie inversion technique based on stochastic approach for rainfall fields monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 2536-2555

  Giuli, Dino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attenuation measurements; Rainfall; Tomography; Tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012018236     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789649     Document Type: Article

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