Retrieval of snow parameters from Ku-band and X-band radar backscatter measurements

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Rott, Helmut ^a,b   Heidinger, Markus ^a   Nagler, Thomas ^a   Cline, Don ^c   Yueh, Simon ^d  

^a ENVEO IT GMBH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Ice; Inversion; SAR; Snow

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; BACKSCATTER; BACKSCATTER DATA; COLD LAND PROCESSES EXPERIMENTS; DUAL FREQUENCY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FORWARD COMPUTATION; KU-BAND; MAIN PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACHES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE MISSION; SNOW GRAIN SIZE; SNOW PROPERTIES; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TERRASAR-X; X-BAND RADARS;

BACKSCATTERING; GEOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NASA; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING;

SNOW;

EID: 77951132989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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