Intercomparison of electromagnetic models for passive microwave remote sensing of snow

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2654-2666

  Tedesco, Marco ^a,b   Kim, Edward J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic models; Microwave; Remote sensing; Snow

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; STRONG FLUCTUATION THEORY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 33746873614     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.873182     Document Type: Article

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