Towards an improved wind and rain backscatter model for ASCAT

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2531-2534

  Owen, Michael P ^a   Long, David G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ASCAT; Backscatter; Rain; Wind

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REMOTE SENSING; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

ASCAT; ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERING; BACKSCATTER MODEL; MODELING TYPE; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; OBSERVATION AREA; OCEAN SURFACES; SCATTEROMETERS;

RAIN;

EID: 78650863979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5651896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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