Towards the Definition of Optimum Sensor Specifications for Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1982, Pages 57-66

  Good, Walter ^b   Schanda, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW AND SNOWFALL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0019899969     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1982.4307521     Document Type: Article

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