Active Microwave Remote Sensing of an Anisotropic Random Medium Layer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-23, Issue 6, 1985, Pages 910-923

  Lee, Jay Kyoon ^a,b   Kong, Jin Au ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES - SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGING;

ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; TERRAIN MAPPING;

EARTH;

EID: 0022149654     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1985.289478     Document Type: Article

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