Boreal forest transmissivity in the microwave domain using ground-based measurements

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-171

  Pardé, Mickaël ^a   Goïta, Kalifa ^a   Royer, Alain ^a   Vachon, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Microwave radiometry; Transmissivity

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FORESTRY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETRY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BOREAL FORESTS; MICROWAVE DOMAINS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; TRANSMITTIVITY;

MICROWAVES;

FORESTRY; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 18844429783     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.842469     Document Type: Article

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