Large-scale inverse Ku-band backscatter modeling of sea ice
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Large-scale inverse Ku-band backscatter modeling of sea ice
Polar sea ice characteristics provide important inputs to models of several geophysical processes. Microwave scatterometers are ideal for monitoring these regions due to their sensitivity to ice properties and insensitivity to atmospheric distortions. Many forward electromagnetic scattering models have been proposed to predict the normalized radar cross section ( ) from sea ice characteristics....
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0196-2892
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2003.813495