Active Remote Sensing of Layered Random Media

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1979, Pages 296-302

  Zuniga, Michael A ^a   Habashy, Tarek M ^a   Kong, Jin Au ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR - REFLECTION;

RADAR BACKSCATTERING; SNOW-ICE FIELDS; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0018529999     PISSN: 00189413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGE.1979.294658     Document Type: Article

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