Measuring surface water from space

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Alsdorf, Douglas E ^a   Rodríguez, Ernesto ^b   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 34447328789     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006RG000197     Document Type: Article

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