Azimuth variation in microwave scatterometer and radiometer data over Antarctica

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1857-1870

  Long, David G ^a,b   Drinkwater, Mark R ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; MICROWAVE SCATTEROMETER;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ANTARCTICA; BACKSCATTERING; ICE; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034229322     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851769     Document Type: Article

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