Microwave remote sensing of snow from a cable car at Chamonix in the French Alps

Isabelle Sherjal (1) , Michel Fily (1) , O. Grosjean (2) , J. Lemorton (3) , Bernard Lesaffre (4) , Yves Page (1) , Michel Gay (1)

1 LGGE - Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement
2 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]
3 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Toulouse]
4 Météo-France

Brightness temperatures were measured on a deep and cold snow cover by the radiometer PORTOS from CNES at five frequencies (5.05-90 GHz), two polarizations, and incidence angles from nadir to 65°. Simultaneously, the snow characteristics were measured in a 5-m pit. The data should serve for emission model validation

Domaines: Electromagnétisme; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Isabelle Sherjal, Michel Fily, O. Grosjean, J. Lemorton, Bernard Lesaffre, et al.. Microwave remote sensing of snow from a cable car at Chamonix in the French Alps. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1998, 36 (1), pp.324-328. ⟨10.1109/36.655345⟩. ⟨hal-00645813⟩