Compensation of elevation angle variations in polarimetric brightness temperature measurements from airborne microwave radiometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 193-195

  Corbella, I ^a   Gasiewski, A J ^b   Klein, M ^c   Piepmeier, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLARIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; WIND;

AIRBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0035119484     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.898683     Document Type: Article

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