Estimates of Faraday rotation with passive microwave polarimetry for microwave remote sensing of Earth surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 5 II, 2000, Pages 2434-2438

  Yueh, Simon H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; IONOSPHERE; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING;

FARADAY ROTATIONS; MICROWAVE PASSIVE POLARIMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0034271692     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.868900     Document Type: Article

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