Scattering properties of dense media from Monte Carlo simulations with application to active remote sensing of snow

Radio Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 803-819

  Zurk, L M ^a,b,c   Tsang, L ^a   Winebrenner, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERMITTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT SCATTERING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIXING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

CLAUSIUS-MOSSOTI MIXING FORMULA; DENSE MEDIA; DEPOLARIZATION; FOLDY-LAX EQUATIONS; PHASE MATRIX;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CONVENTIONAL THEORY; CORRELATED SCATTERING; DENSE MEDIA RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORIES; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; INDEPENDENT SCATTERING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT;

EID: 0030195105     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS00939     Document Type: Article

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