Wet snow backscattering sensitivity on density change for SWE estimation

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1174-1177

  Besic, N ^a,b   Vasile, G ^a   Chanussot, J ^a,c   Stankovic, S ^b   Boldo, D ^d   D'Urso, G ^d  

^a GIPSA LAB   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO   (Montenegro)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

backscattering; density; SAR; SWE; wet snow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894231095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6721375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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