Foam emissivity models for microwave observations of oceans from space

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 274-277

  Anguelova, Magdalena D ^a   Gaiser, Peter W ^a   Raizer, Victor ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ZEL TECHNOLOGIES LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Foam fraction; Microwave radiometer; Sea foam; Whitecaps; WindSat

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SPACE OPTICS; VOID FRACTION;

FOAM FRACTION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SEA FOAM; WHITECAPS; WINDSAT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 77951096094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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