A Study of Backscattering and Emission from Closely Packed Inhomogeneous Media

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-23, Issue 5, 1985, Pages 761-767

  Fung, Adrian K ^a   Eom, Hyo J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW AND SNOWFALL;

MICROWAVE IMAGING/MAPPING; TERRAIN MAPPING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0022114954     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1985.289395     Document Type: Article

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