Snow crystal orientation effects on the scattering of passive microwave radiation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 5 II, 2000, Pages 2430-2434

  Foster, J L ^a   Barton, J S ^b   Chang, A T C ^a   Hall, D K ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GeneralSciencesCorporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SNOW;

DISCRETE DIPOLE SCATTERING MODELS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIATIONS;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034271240     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.868899     Document Type: Article

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