Inversion of spaceborne X-band synthetic aperture radar measurements for precipitation remote sensing over land

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3472-3487

  Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a   Weinman, James A ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversion methodology; Microwave modeling; Precipitation; Retrieval; X band synthetic aperture radar (X SAR)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES;

INVERSION METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE MODELING; PRECIPITATION; RETRIEVAL; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (X-SAR);

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 56849133021     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.922317     Document Type: Article

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