Inversion of the surface properties of ice sheets from satellite microwave data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 743-752

  Flach, Dominic J ^a   Partington, Kim C ^a   Ruiz, Christian ^b   Jeansou, Eric ^a   Drinkwater, Mark R ^c  

^a Vexcel Corporation   (United States)

^b Noveltis ^*  (France)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ice sheets; Inversion; Microwave; Radar; Radar altimetry; Radiometer; Snow accumulation

Indexed keywords

CRYOSTATS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADAR; RADIOMETERS;

ICE SHEETS; INVERSION; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

SATELLITES;

EID: 16444367722     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.844287     Document Type: Article

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