A microwave backscattering model for deformed first-year sea ice and comparisons with sar data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 378-391

  Carlström, Anders ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SAAB AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; CALCULATIONS; ESTIMATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ICE RIDGES; MOMENT METHOD;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0031101259     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.563277     Document Type: Article

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