Validation of surface scattering models across large footprints for global scatterometer applications

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2229-2233

  Grippa, Manuela ^a   Woodhouse, Iain H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backscattering models; ERS scatterometer; Radar; Roughness; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SENSORS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL OPTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SCATTEROMETER; MICROWAVE SENSOR;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0036821960     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.804727     Document Type: Article

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