Large-scale inverse Ku-band backscatter modeling of sea ice

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1821-1833

  Remund, Quinn P ^a   Long, David G ^b  

^a BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse modeling; National aeronautics and space administration (NASA) scatterometer (NSCAT); Scattering models; Sea ice; Special sensor microwave imager (SSM I)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACES;

INVERSE MODELING; NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION; SCATTERING MODELS; SCATTEROMETER; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE-IMAGER;

SEA ICE;

EID: 0141787876     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813495     Document Type: Article

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