A dual-frequency rain profiling method without the use of a surface reference technique

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2214-2225

  Mardiana, Redy ^a   Iguchi, Toshio ^a   Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airborne and spaceborne remote sensing; Precipitation measurement; Radar meteorology

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; RAIN; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIRBORNE AND SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION (DSD); PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; RADAR METEOROLOGY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 7044260534     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.834647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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