KU- and X-band backscatter analysis and SWE retrieval for Alpine snow

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2407-2410

  Rott, Helmut ^a,b   Nagler, Thomas ^a   Ripper, Elisabeth ^a   Voglmeier, Karl ^a   Prinz, Rainer ^a,b   Fromm, Reinhard ^c   Coccia, Alex ^d   Meta, Adriano ^d   Di Leo, Daniela ^d   Schuttemeyer, Dirk ^e  

^a ENVEO IT GMBH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c BFW   (Austria)

^d University of Hull   (Netherlands)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

backscatter; field campaign; inversion; SAR; Snow

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALPINE SNOW; FIELD CAMPAIGN; INVERSION; MEAN VALUES; SOW WATER EQUIVALENTS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; WINTER SEASONS;

SNOW;

EID: 84911385784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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