Preliminary Analysis of Shuttle Radar Laboratory (SRL-1) Data to Study Aeolian Features and Processes

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 927-933

  Greeley, Ronald ^a   Blumberg, Dan G ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; ARRAYS; CORRELATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS; OCEANOGRAPHIC RADAR SYSTEM; RADAR BACKSCATTER; SHUTTLE IMAGING RADAR;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0029336046     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.406678     Document Type: Article

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