Snow Fork for Field Determination of the Density and Wetness Profiles of a Snow Pack

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-24, Issue 5, 1986, Pages 717-721

  Sihvola, Ari ^a   Tiuri, Martti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS - PERMITTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; RESONATORS;

COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY; NONDESTRUCTIVE MEASUREMENT; SNOW FORK;

SNOW AND SNOWFALL;

EID: 0022783840     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1986.289619     Document Type: Article

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