The effect of steep sea-waves on polarization ratio at low grazing angles

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 1 II, 2000, Pages 366-373

  Voronovich, Alexander G ^a   Zavorotny, Valéry U ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER WAVES;

LOW GRAZING ANGLES; PIERSON-MOSKOWITZ SPECTRUM; STEEP SEA-WAVES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033878969     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.823932     Document Type: Article

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