Evaluation of vegetation effect on the retrieval of snow parameters from backscattering measurements: A contribution to CoReH2O mission

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1772-1775

  Macelloni, Giovanni ^a   Brogioni, Marco ^a   Montomoli, Francesco ^a   Fontanelli, Giacomo ^a   Kern, Michael ^b   Rott, Helmut ^c  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

CoReH2O; SAR; Snow; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; EARTH (PLANET); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; RHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW; SPACE-BASED RADAR; VEGETATION;

BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENT; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; COREH2O; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; VEGETATION PARAMETERS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 78650893008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5649877     Document Type: Conference Paper

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