Microwave remote sensing of alpine snow

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1223-1227

  Wiesmann, A ^a   Strozzi, T ^a   Werner, C ^a   Wegmuller U ^a   Santoro, M ^a  

^a GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ASSIST; Avalanche; CoReH20; Snow; SnowScat

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES; SNOWSCAT PROJECT;

ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 82355195019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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