Inverse modeling of GPS multipath for snow depth estimation - Part I: Formulation and simulations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6555-6563

  Nievinski, Felipe G ^a   Larson, Kristine M ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial satellites; Electromagnetic reflection; Global positioning system; Interferometers; Multipath channels; Radar remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; INTERFEROMETERS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; SATELLITES; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTENNA RESPONSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC REFLECTION; FORWARD MODELING; INTERFERENCE FRINGE; INVERSE MODELING; LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; PARAMETER CORRECTION; RADAR REMOTE SENSING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84901840225     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2297681     Document Type: Article

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