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Article: Scientists at University of Calgary detail research in remote sensing.
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- Electronics Newsweekly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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"This paper presents a case study of C-band backscatter observations of snow during a Chinook event. A surface-based C-band polarimetric data set collected in February 2006 is used to contrast the polarimetric response to sampled conditions of bare frozen ground, cold snow-covered ground, and snow during a Chinook event," scientists in Calgary, Canada report.
"Chinook activity is inherently spatially and temporally variable across the region in winter and produces considerable spatial variability of snow-cover physical properties associated with snow-water-equivalent (SWE) estimates. A temporal analysis of polarimetric backscatter sensed during a Chinook-induced ...