Influence of land-cover category on brightness temperature of snow

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 367-377

  Kurvonen, Lauri ^a   Hallikainen, Martti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature of snow; Microwave radiometer; Remote sensing of snow

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; INCIDENT ANGLE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; VEGETATION;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0031095421     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.563276     Document Type: Article

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