Correlations between slant wet delays measured by microwave radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1028-1035

  Nilsson, Tobias ^a   Gradinarsky, Lubomir ^a   Elgered, Gunnar ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Global positioning system; Microwave radiometry; Noise measurement; Random media; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY;

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC SLANT WET DELAYS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RANDOM MEDIA;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 18544377655     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.840659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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