Potential applications of 1-5 GHz radar backscatter measurements of seasonal land snow cover

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 967-981

  West, Richard D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PERMITTIVITY; SNOW; SOILS; THERMAL INSULATION; FROZEN SOILS; MICROWAVES; RADAR; SOIL SURVEYS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE;

RADAR BACKSCATTER MEASUREMENTS; SNOW COVER; SNOW DENSITY; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVE RESPONSE; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; SINGLE POLARIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0034215789     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002257     Document Type: Article

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