Computation of oceanlike surface thermal emission and bistatic scattering with the reduced local curvature approximation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2108-2115

  Johnson, Joel T ^a,b   Elfouhaily, Tanos M ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Rough surface scattering; Thermal emission

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC SCATTERING; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; THERMAL EMISSION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADIOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 34347229340     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.890420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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