Radar backscatter from a dense discrete random medium

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 892-900

  Chuah, Hean Teik ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; SNOW;

AMPLITUDE CORRECTIONS; DENSE DISCRETE RANDOM MEDIUM; PHASE COHERENCY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031191847     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.602531     Document Type: Article

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