Airborne Ku-band polarimetric radar remote sensing of terrestrial snow cover

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3347-3364

  Yueh, Simon H ^a   Dinardo, Steve J ^a   Akgiray, Ahmed ^a   West, Richard ^a   Cline, Donald W ^b   Elder, Kelly ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; Radar; Snow

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT FLIGHT; BACKSCATTER RATIO; CO-POLARIZED; COLD LAND PROCESSES EXPERIMENTS; CROSS-POLARIZED; CRUST LAYER; FREEZE/THAW CYCLES; GRAIN SIZE; GROUND SURFACES; KU-BAND; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; NON-SPHERICAL; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; QUIKSCAT; RADAR ECHOES; RADAR SIGNALS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SCATTERING; SCATTERING GEOMETRIES; SCATTEROMETERS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVERS; STUDY SITES; WINTER MONTHS;

AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT; BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; GRAIN GROWTH; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

SNOW;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BIOMASS; DATA ACQUISITION; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETER; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA;

EID: 70350622165     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2022945     Document Type: Article

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