Microwave snowpack studies made in the Austrian Alps during the SIR-C/X-SAR experiment

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2505-2530

  Matzler, C ^a   Strozzi, T ^a   Weise, T ^a   Floricioiu, D M ^b   Rott, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MICROWAVE SNOWPACK STUDIES; POLARIMETRIC SCATTEROMETERS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ABLATION; ACCUMULATION; GLACIER; MICROWAVE SENSING; RADAR; SAR; SIR-C;

AUSTRIA, ALPS;

EID: 0031205846     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311697217440     Document Type: Article

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