Sensitivity of radar backscatter to desert surface roughness

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1641-1659

  Charlton, Mathew B ^a   White, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CORRELATION THEORY; LANDFORMS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING;

CORRELATION LENGTH; DESERT SURFACE ROUGHNESS; RADAR BACKSCATTER;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BACKSCATTER; DESERT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33646801248     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160500491740     Document Type: Article

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