Title :
Snow Water Equivalence Retrieval Using X and Ku band Dual-Polarization Radar
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Comput. Earth Syst. Sci., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
fDate :
July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006
Abstract :
In this study, we evaluated the feasibility of using the dual frequency (X-band 9.6 GHz and Ku-band 17 GHz) and dual polarization (W and VH) radar to estimate snow water equivalence through numerical simulations.
Keywords :
numerical analysis; polarisation; remote sensing by radar; snow; Ku band dual-polarization radar; X band dual-polarization radar; snow water equivalence retrieval; Backscatter; Databases; Frequency estimation; Ice; Numerical simulation; Particle scattering; Polarization; Radar scattering; Snow; Spaceborne radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9510-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2006.564
