Dense Medium Radiative Transfer Theory: Comparison With Experiment and Application to Microwave Remote Sensing and Polarimetry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 46-59

  Wen, Boheng ^a   Tsang, Leung ^a   Winebrenner, Dale P ^a   Ishimaru, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES--SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--VECTORS; RADAR IMAGING;

DENSE MEDIUM RADIATIVE TRANSFER; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SNOW REMOTE SENSING; STOKES VECTOR;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0025263405     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.45744     Document Type: Article

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