Effects of birefringence within ice sheets on obliquely propagating radio waves

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1429-1443

  Matsuoka, Kenichi ^a   Wilen, Larry ^b   Hurley, Shawn P ^b,c   Raymond, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic regions; Birefringence; Ice; Radar polarimetry

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC REGIONS; ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; BISTATIC; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES; FREQUENCY RANGES; GREENLAND; ICE CORES; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE SHEETS; PATH CONFIGURATIONS; POLAR ICE SHEETS; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATIONS; RADAR FREQUENCIES; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SIDE-LOOKING RADARS;

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELLIPSOMETRY; FABRICS; GLACIERS; ICE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PAPER SHEETING; POLARIMETERS; RADIO WAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIREFRINGENCE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; POLAR REGION; RADAR; RADIO WAVE;

EID: 67349189175     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2005201     Document Type: Article

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