Normalized residual scattering index applied to aquarius L-band measurements

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 890-894

  Colliander, Andreas ^a   Xu, Xiaolan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active; Aquarius; European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecasts; Global Multiresolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010; GlobSnow; Microwave; Passive; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894904270     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2226559     Document Type: Article

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