Backscattering model validity across large footprints for global scatterometer applications

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1303-1305

  Grippa, Manuela ^a   Woodhouse, Iain H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERS scatterometer; Roughness; Semi arid zones; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GLOBAL SCATTEROMETER; SPACEBORNE SCATTEROMETERS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0035575412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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