Atmospheric multiple scattering effects on glas altimetry-part i: calculations of single pulse bias

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 92-101

  Duda, David P ^a   Spinhirne, James D ^b   Eloranta, Edwin W ^c  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CLOUD MULTIPLE SCATTERINGS; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS (EOS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0035119051     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.898668     Document Type: Article

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