Millimeter-wave Backscatter Measurements on Snow-Covered Terrain

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 282-299

  Baars, Ernst Peter ^a   Essen, Helmut ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVES - SCATTERING; RADAR - CROSS SECTIONS;

MILLIMETER WAVE BACKSCATTER; POLARIMETRIC FREQUENCY-AGILE RADAR; SNOW COVER;

SNOW AND SNOWFALL;

EID: 0024015809     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.3031     Document Type: Article

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