Self-consistency of polarization diversity measurement of rainfall

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 22-26

  Scarchilli, G ^a,b   Gorgucci, E ^a   Chandrasekar, V ^a   Dobaie, A ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; REFLECTIVITY FACTOR; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PROPAGATION PHASE;

RAIN;

EID: 0029772756     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.481887     Document Type: Article

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