Issues concerning the sea emissivity modeling at L band for retrieving surface salinity

Radio Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Dinnat, Emmanuel P ^a   Boutin, Jacqueline ^a   Caudal, Gérard ^b   Etcheto, Jacqueline ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Ctr d'Etud Environnements T   (France)

Author keywords

Microwave; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Roughness; Salinity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOISTURE; PERMITTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SEAWATER; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

SEA EMISSIVITY MODELING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042872366     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002rs002637     Document Type: Article

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