Potential of simultaneous dual-frequency radar altimeter measurementsfrom TOPEX/Poseidon for rainfall estimation over oceans

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-20

  Bhandari, S M ^a   Varma, A K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER; MEASUREMENT; MONSOON; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADAR SIGNAL; RAINFALL; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCIES; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

MICROWAVE RADIATION; OCEAN; PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADAR ALTIMETERS; RADAR SIGNAL; RAINFALL ESTIMATION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030251262     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(96)00050-8     Document Type: Article

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