Retrieval of Snow Parameters by Iterative Inversion of a Neural Network

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 842-852

  Davis, Daniel T ^a   Chen, Zhengxiao ^b   Tsang, Leung ^b   Hwang, Jenq Neng ^b   Chang, Alfred 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

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING;

ITERATIVE INVERSION; MEAN GRAIN SIZE; SNOW PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC TERRAIN;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0027629444     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.239907     Document Type: Article

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