Simultaneous observations and analysis of severe storms using polarimetric X-band SAR and ground-based weather radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3622-3637

  Fritz, Jason P ^a   Chandrasekar, V ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; meteorological radar; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar; propagation losses; spaceborne radar; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; PROPAGATION LOSSES; SPACEBORNE RADAR; TERRASAR-X;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; STORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; DATA ACQUISITION; GROUND COVER; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; POLARIZATION; RAINFALL; REFLECTIVITY; SIR; STORM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957008371     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2048920     Document Type: Article

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