Estimating terrestrial snow depth with the Topex-Poseidon altimeter and radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2162-2169

  Papa, Fabrice ^a   Legresy, Benoît ^a   Mognard, Nelly M ^b   Josberger, Edward G ^c   Remy, Frédérique ^a  

^a CNES   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Northern Great Plains of the United States; Radar altimetry; Snow depth

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; WEATHER SATELLITES;

PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; RADAR ALTIMETER; SATELLITE SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER; SNOW DEPTH;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036821728     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802463     Document Type: Article

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