Estimation of snow water equivalence using SIR-C/X-SAR, Part I: Inferring snow density and subsurface properties

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2465-2474

  Shi, Jiancheng ^a   Dozier, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric constant; L band radar; Polarization; Snow density; Subsurface roughness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SNOW; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

L-BAND RADAR; SNOW DENSITY; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENCE; SUBSURFACE ROUGHNESS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0034316202     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.885195     Document Type: Article

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