• DocumentCode
    2859242
  • Title

    Snow Water Equivalence Retrieval Using X and Ku band Dual-Polarization Radar

  • Author

    Shi, Jiancheng

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Comput. Earth Syst. Sci., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006
  • Firstpage
    2183
  • Lastpage
    2185
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9510-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2006.564
  • Filename
    4241711