Snow classification algorithm for ENVISAT ASAR

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 572, 2005, Pages 1941-1948

  Nagler, Thomas ^a   Rott, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ENVEO IT GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (ASAR); AIRBORNE EXPERIMENTS; ALPINE WATERSHEDS; SNOW CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SNOW;

EID: 23844443138     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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