Modeling radar scattering from icy lunar regoliths at 13 cm and 4 cm wavelengths

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Thompson, Thomas W ^a   Ustinov, Eugene A ^a   Heggy, Essam ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE COVER; LUNAR CRUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY SURFACE; RADAR IMAGERY; REGOLITH; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78751546479     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JE003368     Document Type: Article

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