Near nadir scattering properties at W-band frequency for the sea surface

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1742-1745

  Horie, Hiroaki ^a   Kuroiwa, Hiroshi ^a   Kumagai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calibration; Millimeter wave radar; Normarized radar cross section; Satelliteborne cloud profiling radar; Sea surface scattering

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR;

MILLIMETER-WAVE RADARS; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; SATELLITEBORNE CLOUD PROFILING RADAR; SEA SURFACE SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 15944427182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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