The emissivity of foam-covered water surface at L-band: Theoretical modeling and experimental results from the frog 2003 field experiment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 925-936

  Camps, Adriano ^a   Vall Llossera, Mercè ^a   Villarino, Ramón ^a   Real, Nicolas ^b   Chapron, Bertrand ^b   Corbella, Ignasi ^a   Duffo, Núria ^a   Torres, Francesc ^a   Miranda, Jorge José ^a   Sabia, Roberto ^a   Monerris, Alessandra ^a   Rodríguez, Rubén ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; Emission; Foam; Microwave radiometry; Salinity; Sea

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; L-BAND; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN EMISSION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 21044443131     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.839651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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