Microwave emission from snowpacks: Modeling the effects of volume scattering, surface scattering and layering

2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment - 10th Specialist Meeting, Proceedings, MICRORAD

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tsang, Leung ^a,b   Liang, Ding ^a,b   Xu, Xiaolan ^b   Xu, Peng ^c,d  

^a IEEE

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dense media; DMRT; Layered media; Microwave remote sensing; Rough surface; Scattering; Snow

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVE EQUATIONS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DENSE MEDIA; DENSE MEDIUMS; DMRT; FULL WAVES; GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; LAYERED MEDIA; LAYERED MEDIUM; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MULTI LAYERING; NUMERICA L RESULTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; QUASI CRYSTALLINE APPROXIMATION; ROUGH SURFACE; ROUGH SURFACES; SNOW; STOKES PARAMETERS; SURFACE SCATTERING; VOLUME SCATTERING;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 51849115940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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