Theoretical study of the small slope approximation for ocean polarimetric thermal emission

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 pt 1, 1999, Pages 2305-2316

  Johnson, Joel T ^a   Zhang, Min ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLARIMETERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER WAVES;

SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD; SMALL SLOPE APPROXIMATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033189857     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789627     Document Type: Article

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