Polarimetric backscatter from fresh and metamorphic snowcover at millimeter wavelengths

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 58-73

  Chang, Paul S ^a,b   Mead, James B ^a   Knapp, Eric J ^a   Sadowy, Gregory A ^b   Davis, Robert E ^b   Mclntosh, Robert E ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SNOW;

METAMORPHIC SNOWCOVER; MUELLER MATRIX; PHASE DIFFERENCE; POLARIMETRIC BACKSCATTER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0029753866     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.477529     Document Type: Article

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