Simulations of mirror image returns of air/space-borne radars in rain and their applications in estimating path attenuation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 II, 1999, Pages 1107-1121

  Liao, Liang ^a   Meneghini, Robert ^a   Iguchi, Toshio ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Air space borne radars; Attenuation; Rain; Scattering; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN;

MIRROR IMAGE RETURNS; SURFACE REFERENCE TECHNIQUE (SRT);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033097669     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752229     Document Type: Article

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