Recent changes in the microwave scattering properties of the Antarctic ice sheet

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1810-1820

  Bingham, Andrew W ^b   Drinkwater, Mark R ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ICE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; INTERANNUAL CHANGE; SCATTEROMETER; SEASONAL CHANGE;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0034225137     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851765     Document Type: Article

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