The Analysis of Backscattering Properties from SAR Data of Mountain Regions

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1984, Pages 347-355

  Rott, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTERING PROPERTIES; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; ROUGHNESS PROPERTIES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR);

RADAR;

EID: 0021620402     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: 15581691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.1984.1145655     Document Type: Article

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