Penetration depths inferred from interferometric volume decorrelation observed over the Greenland ice sheet

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2571-2583

  Weber Hoen, E ^a   Zebker, Howard A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GLACIERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RADIO WAVES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GREENLAND ICE SHEET; INTERFEROMETRIC CORRELATION; RADAR ECHO; RADIO WAVE PENETRATION DEPTH; VOLUME SCATTER;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0034316373     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.885204     Document Type: Article

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