Seasat over-land scatterometer data - I: Global overview of the Ku-band backscatter coefficients

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 592-605

  Kennett, Rosemary G ^a   Li, Fuk K ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAPS AND MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS; RADAR IMAGING;

GLOBAL STATISTICS; KU-BAND BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; KU-BAND SEASAT-A SATELLITE SCATTEROMETER; RADAR SCATTERING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0024733893     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1989.35942     Document Type: Article

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