A general formalism for the distribution of the total length of a geophysical parameter along a finite transect

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 II, 1999, Pages 508-512

  Astin, Ivan ^a   Di Girolamo, Larry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; Exponential distributions; Probability; Remote sensing; Statistics; Stochastic fields

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; FINITE TRANSECT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032729594     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739102     Document Type: Article

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