Characterization of dry-snow sub-structure using GNSS reflected signals

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 122-134

  Cardellach, Estel ^a   Fabra, Fran ^a   Rius, Antonio ^a   Pettinato, Simone ^b   D'Addio, Salvatore ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dry snow; GNSS reflectometry; Phase interferometry

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; DRY SNOW; EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; FORWARD MODELS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRIC PATTERN; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; POTENTIAL CAPABILITY; REFLECTED SIGNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; SPACE-BASED; SUB-STRUCTURES; SUB-SURFACES;

HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY;

SNOW;

DATA SET; DOME; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORWARD MODELING; GNSS; HOLOGRAPHY; INTERFEROMETRY; MONITORING; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE MISSION; SNOW;

ANTARCTICA; DOME CONCORDIA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84861955693     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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