Spatial and Frequency Averaging Techniques for a Polarimetric Scatterometer System

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 187-196

  Monakov, Andrei A ^a   Vivekanandan, J ^c   Stjernman, Anders S ^a   Nystrom, Anders K ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY OF AEROSPACE INSTRUMENTATION   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR INTERFERENCE; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DECORRELATION BANDWIDTH; FADING DECORRELATION DISTANCE; FREQUENCY AGILITY TECHNIQUES; KIRCHHOFF'S APPROXIMATION; POLARIMETRIC SCATTEROMETER; SPATIAL AVERAGING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0028096362     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.285201     Document Type: Article

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