A waveform model for surface and volume scattering from ice and snow

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 444-456

  Newkirk, Michael H ^a   Brown, Gary S ^b  

^a US Array Research Laboraiory   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; ICE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SNOW; SURFACES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

IMPULSE RESPONSE BASED METHOD; RADAR ALTIMETER; SURFACE MODEL; TRANSMITTED PULSEWIDTH; VOLUME SCATTERED WAVEFORM MODEL;

RADAR EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0030109070     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.485122     Document Type: Article

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