A theoretical study of sea surface up/down wind brightness temperature differences

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 66-78

  Johnson, Joel T ^a,b   Cai, Yongyao ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Ocean remote sensing; Rough surface; Scattering; Thermal emission

Indexed keywords

THERMAL EMISSION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036194629     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.981350     Document Type: Article

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