The use of ers-1 sar data in snow melt monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 601-610

  Koskinen, Jarkko T ^a   Pulliainen, Jouni T ^a   Hallikainen, Martti T ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; RADAR IMAGING; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SNOW MELT MONITORING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031140717     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.581975     Document Type: Article

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