Evaporation of groundwater from arid playas measured by C-band SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 7 PART I, 2003, Pages 1641-1650

  Wadge, Geoffrey ^a   Archer, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arid playas; Evaporation; Surface roughness; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BACKSCATTERING; EFFLORESCENCE; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARID PLAYAS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0041928038     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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