The retrieval of snow characteristics from optical measurements

Light Scattering Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 289-331

  Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^a   Rozanov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING;

INFORMATION CONTENTS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; RESEARCH GROUPS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SNOW GRAIN SIZE;

SNOW;

EID: 80054755571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15531-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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