Comparison between a multi-scattering and multi-layer snow scattering model and its parameterized snow backscattering model

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1089-1098

  Du, Jinyang ^a   Shi, Jiancheng ^a,b   Rott, Helmut ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active microwave remote sensing; Parameterization; Snow scattering model; Snow water equivalent

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; ADVANCED INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; BACKSCATTERING MODELS; COLD LAND PROCESSES FIELD EXPERIMENTS; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; CRYSTAL SHAPES; DRY SNOW; FAST SIMULATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GROUND-SURFACE ROUGHNESS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTENSIVE OBSERVATION PERIODS; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; MATRIX DOUBLING; MICROWAVE SCATTERING; MODEL PREDICTION; MODEL SIMULATION; MULTILAYER MODELS; PARAMETERIZED; PARAMETERIZED MODEL; RADAR SIGNALS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SCATTERING MODEL; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DENSITY; SNOW LAYER; SNOW PACKS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOIL PROPERTY; STRATIFICATION EFFECTS; SURFACE MODELING; SURFACE SCATTERING;

BACKSCATTERING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; MICROWAVES; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SNOW;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIELDWORK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; SOIL PROPERTY; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 76049126882     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.12.020     Document Type: Article

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