Attenuation in nonrainy conditions at millimeter wavelengths: Assessment of a procedure

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2150-2157

  Luini, Lorenzo ^a   Riva, Carlo ^a   Capsoni, Carlo ^a   Martellucci, Antonio ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Radiometry

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MODELS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE;

BANDWIDTH; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIOMETERS; WAVELENGTH;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 34347262019     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.895336     Document Type: Article

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