Comment on modified stokes parameters

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2707-2713

  Le Vine, David M ^a   Utku, Cuneyt ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Polarimetry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETRY; POLARIMETRY; STOKES PARAMETERS;

ELLIPSOMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

MICROWAVES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; STOKES FORMULA;

EID: 67949106457     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2015875     Document Type: Article

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