Assessment of the performance of a dual-frequency surface reference technique over ocean

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2968-2977

  Meneghini, Robert ^a   Liao, Liang ^b   Tanelli, Simone ^c   Durden, Stephen L ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; precipitation; radar; surface scattering

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADARS; ATTENUATION; CROSS SECTION; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL ATTENUATION; DUAL FREQUENCY; PATH ATTENUATION; RADAR BEAM; SIMPLE METHOD; SINGLE WAVELENGTH; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; SURFACE REFERENCE TECHNIQUES;

ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR; SURFACE SCATTERING;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; CORRELATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PATH ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SCATTERING; SEA SURFACE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84864289635     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2180727     Document Type: Article

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