Azimuthal anisotropy of scatterometer measurements over land

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2083-2092

  Bartalis, Zoltan ^b   Scipal, Klaus ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Azimuthal anisotropy; Backscattering coefficient; European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS) Scatterometer (ESCAT); SeaWinds Scatterometer; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE (ERS) SCATTEROMETER (ESCAT); SEAWINDS SCATTEROMETERS; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM);

BACKSCATTERING; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MODULATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 33746885517     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.872084     Document Type: Article

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