Forward electromagnetic scattering models for sea ice

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1655-1674

  Golden, K M ^a   Cheney, M ^a   Ding, Kung Hau ^a   Fung, A K ^a   Grenfell, Thomas C ^a   Isaacson, D ^a   Kong, Jin Au ^a   Nghiem, Son V ^a   Sylvester, J ^a   Winebrenner, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric materials; Electromagnetic scattering by random media; Nonhomogeneous media; Remote sensing; Sea ice; Snow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW;

BORN APPROXIMATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; INVERSE ALGORITHMS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY;

SEA ICE;

EID: 0032166816     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718637     Document Type: Article

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