L-band reflectivity of a wire grid above a dielectric surface

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 601-605

  Völksch, Ingo ^a   Schwank, Mike ^a   Matzler C ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; wire grids

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; DIELECTRIC SURFACE; DUAL-POLARIZED; GRID ORIENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PHYSICAL MODEL; WIRE GRID; WIRE SPACING;

MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

WIRE;

EID: 77954624641     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2042786     Document Type: Article

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