L-band radiometry and reflection of the Galaxy by a rough ocean surface

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Dinnat, Emmanuel P ^b   Le Vine, David M ^a,c   Abraham, Saji ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy; L band; Radiometry; Sea surface salinity

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACCURATE CORRECTION; ANTENNA GAIN PATTERN; AQUARIUS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; GALAXY; L-BAND; L-BAND RADIOMETER; L-BAND RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN SURFACES; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 51849153287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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