Dense Medium Radiative Transfer Theory for Two Scattering Layers with a Rayleigh Distribution of Particle Sizes

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 426-437

  West, Richard ^a   Tsang, Leung ^a   Winebrenner, Dale P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MICROWAVES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RADAR; SEA ICE; SNOW;

DENSE MEDIUM RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION; THREE-LAYER MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027560126     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.214919     Document Type: Letter

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