Investigating of snow wetness parameter using a two-phase backscattering model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1827-1833

  Arslan, Ali Nadir ^a   Hallikainen, Martti T ^b   Pulliainen, Jouni T ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Correlation functions; Correlation lengths; Effective permittivity; Radar backscatter; Wet snow

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CORRELATION METHODS; FLUID MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR TRACKING; SNOW;

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; EFFECTIVITY PERMITTIVITY; RADAR BACKSCATTER; WET SNOW;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 24944547830     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.849062     Document Type: Article

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