Ku-band backscatter from the Cowlitz River: Bragg scattering with and without rain

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1444-1449

  Contreras, Robert F ^a   Plant, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bragg scattering; Rain; Remote sensing; River surface electromagnetic scattering; Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIATION EFFECTS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND EFFECTS;

BRAGG SCATTERING; RIVER SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; SEA SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; WAVE HEIGHT;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 3843063443     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.828921     Document Type: Article

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