Rough-sea microwave emissivities measured with the SSM/I

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 1081-1085

  Rosenkranz, P W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

microwave signatures; Oceanic remote sensing

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; WIND EFFECTS;

ROUGH SEA EMISSIVITIES; SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER (SSM/I); WHITEWATER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026915177     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.175345     Document Type: Article

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