Characterization of atmospheric precipitation effects on spaceborne synthetic aperture radar response at X, Ku, Ka band;Caratterizzazione degli effetti di precipitazione atmosferica sulla risposta di radar spaziali ad apertura sintetica in banda X, Ku e Ka

Italian Journal of Remote Sensing / Rivista Italiana di Telerilevamento

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 73-88

  Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a,b   Mori, Saverio ^a   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a   Pulvirenti, Luca ^a   Weinman, James A ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud model; Microwave modeling; Precipitation; Retrieval; Synthetic aperture radar; System for Atmospheric Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957730357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2279-725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5721/itjrs20094136     Document Type: Article

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