The influence of antenna pattern on faraday rotation in remote sensing at L-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2737-2746

  Le Vine, David M ^a,b   Jacob, S Daniel ^b   Dinnat, Emmanuel P ^b   De Matthaeis, Paolo ^a,b   Abraham, Saji ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c RS Information Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna patterns; Faraday rotation; Microwave remote sensing; Radiometer

Indexed keywords

FARADAY EFFECT; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; STOKES PARAMETER;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 34548216208     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.898237     Document Type: Article

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