Estimating snow accumulation from InSAR correlation observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-20

  Oveisgharan, Shadi ^a,b   Zebker, Howard A ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Greenland ice sheet; Normalized power backscattered; Radar interferometry; Surface scatter; The dry snow zone; Volume scatter

Indexed keywords

GREENLAND ICE SHEET; NORMALIZED POWER BACKSCATTERED; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE SCATTER; THE DRY-SNOW ZONE; VOLUME SCATTERS;

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; IN SITU PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33846187613     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.886196     Document Type: Article

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