Variability in ERS scatterometer measurements over land

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1767-1776

  Abdel Messeh, Maged ^b   Quegan, Shaun ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; DATA QUALITY; DYNAMIC LAND PROCESSES; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE SCATTEROMETER; GLOBAL BACKSCATTERING IMAGES; INCIDENCE ANGLE MODELS;

BACKSCATTERING; CLIMATOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; VEGETATION;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0034226671     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851760     Document Type: Article

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