Rain measurement with SIR-C/X-SAR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 280-293

  Moore, R K ^a   Mogili, A ^a   Fang, Y ^a   Beh, B ^a   Ahamad, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; STORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RAIN MEASUREMENT; SHUTTLE IMAGING RADAR C/X BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SIR C/X SAR;

RADAR IMAGING;

PRECIPITATION; RADAR; RAIN; SIR-C/X-SAR;

EID: 0030615380     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00147-2     Document Type: Article

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