Airborne microwave measurements of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet
- 10 February 1985
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Journal of Geophysical Research
- Vol. 90 (B2) , 1983-1994
- https://doi.org/10.1029/jb090ib02p01983
Abstract
Microwave remote sensing measurements were collected over Greenland with the NASA C‐130 aircraft used as a platform. The principal instruments were a C band radiometer and an X band scatterometer, which simultaneously collected both active and passive microwave remote sensing data. The results indicate that subsurface inhomogeneities control the scattering and emission process, including anisotropic effects. The results strongly suggest that microwave remote sensing techniques can provide a relative measure of the density and orientation of the volume scatters.Keywords
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