Scattering Model for Snow-Covered Sea Ice

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 804-810

  Tjuatja, Saibun ^a   Fung, Adrian K ^a   Bredow, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING;

DESALINATED ICE; ICE/WATER INTERFACE; RRADIATIVE TRANSFER; SALINE ICE; SCATTERING MODEL; SNOW-COVERED SEA ICE;

SEA ICE;

EID: 0026895452     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.158876     Document Type: Article

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