Impact of vegetation in the retrieval of snow parameters from backscattering measurements at the X- and Ku-bands

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 218-221

  Macelloni, Giovanni ^a   Pettinato, Simone ^a   Santi, Emanuele ^a   Rott, Helmut ^b   Cline, Don ^c   Rebhan, Helge ^d  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CoReH2O; SAR; Snow; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; EARTH (PLANET); GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; VEGETATION;

BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENT; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; COREH2O; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; SATELLITE MISSION; THEORETICAL STUDY; VEGETATION PARAMETERS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FORESTRY; PLANNING; PLANTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY; SNOW;

EID: 67649790707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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