Ionospheric effects for L-band 2-D interferometric radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-118

  Waldteufel, Philippe ^a   Floury, Nicolas ^b   Dinnat, Emmanuel P ^b   Caudal, Gerard ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Ionospheric electromagnetic propagation; Microwave radiometry; Ocean salinity; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; FARADAY EFFECT; INTERFEROMETRY; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLARIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS; SPACE FLIGHT;

INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETRY; IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN SALINITY; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 1242263813     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817685     Document Type: Article

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