Multiangle backscattering observations of continental surfaces in Ku-band (13 GHz) from satellites: Understanding the signals, particularly in arid regions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1364-1373

  Prigent, Catherine ^a   Aires, Filipe ^a,b   Jimenez, Carlos ^a,b   Papa, Fabrice ^c,d   Roger, Jack ^e  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b Estellus ^*  (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^e Natural Risks and CO2 Storage Safety Division   (France)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Radar remote sensing; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

ACTIVE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS; ALTIMETRY; MULTI-ANGLE OBSERVATIONS; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASUREMENT MISSIONS; VEGETATION DENSITY; VOLUME SCATTERING;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

BACKSCATTER; DESERT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NADIR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AFRICA;

EID: 84907463706     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2338913     Document Type: Article

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