Snow thickness estimation using correlation functions at C-band

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 3705-3708

  Jaruwatanadilok, Sermsak ^a   Kuga, Yasuo ^a   Ishimaru, Akira ^a   Hussein, Ziad A ^b   McDonald, Kyle C ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation function; Rough surface scattering; Snow thickness; Snow water content; Volume scattering

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; SNOW THICKNESS; SNOW WATER CONTENT; VOLUME SCATTERING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT;

EID: 15944399993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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