A study of ocean-like surface thermal emission and reflection using Voronovich's small slope approximation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 306-314

  Johnson, Joel T ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Rough surface scattering; Thermal emission

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD (SPM); THERMAL EMISSION; VORONOVICH SMALL SLOPE APPROXIMATION;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 13144294079     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.841480     Document Type: Article

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