Microwave permittivity of dry snow

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 573-581

  Mätzler, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; ICE; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SENSORS; SURFACES; VOLUME FRACTION;

MICROWAVE PERMITTIVITY; RESOMETER; SNOW DENSITY;

SNOW;

EID: 0030106065     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.485133     Document Type: Article

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