A multi-scattering and multi-layer snow model and its validation

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1219-1222

  Du, Jinyang ^a,c   Shi, J ^a,b   Tjuatja, S ^d   Chen, K S ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active microwave; Model; Snow

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED INTEGRAL EQUATION MODEL (AIEM); MICROWAVE SCATTERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SNOW;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 82355161698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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