Inversion of snow parameters from passive microwave remote sensing measurements by a neural network trained with a multiple scattering model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 1015-1024

  Tsang, Leung ^a   Chen, Zhengxiao ^a   Oh, Seho ^a   Marks, Robert J ^a   Chang, A T C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

ANTARCTICA; ICE PARTICLE SIZE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MULTIPLE SCATTERING MODEL; SNOW DENSITY; SNOW TEMPERATURE;

SNOW;

EID: 0026917604     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.175336     Document Type: Article

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