- Additional Authors
- Description
- [48] p. in various pagings : ill.
- Summary
- "Microwave hydrology, as the term in construed in this trilogy, deals with the investigation of important hydrological features on the Earth's surface as they are remotely, and passively, sensed by orbiting microwave receivers. Microwave wavelengths penetrate clouds, foliage, ground cover, and soil, in varying degrees, and reveal the occurrence of standing liquid water on and beneath the surface. The manifestation of liquid water appearing on or near the surface is reported by a microwave receiver as a signal with a low flux level, or, equivalently, a cold temperature. Actually, the surface of the liquid water reflects the low flux level from the cosmic background into the input terminals of the receiver. This trilogy describes and shows by microwave flux images the hydrological features that sustain Lake Baykal as an extraordinary freshwater resource manifestations of subsurface water in Iran and the major water features of the Congo Basin, a rain forest."--NTRS abstract.
- Series Statement
- NASA-CR ; 176042
- Uniform Title
- NASA contractor report ; NASA CR-176041.
- Subject
- Note
- "April 1, 1985."
- "JPL publication 85-21."
- Reproduction (note)
- Funding (note)
- Call Number
- GPO Microfiche NAS 1.26:176042
- OCLC
- marcive29266774
- Title
Microwave hydrology [microform] : a trilogy / J.M. Stacey, ... [et al.].
- Imprint
Pasadena, Calif. : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, [1985]
- Series
NASA-CR ; 176042
NASA contractor report ; NASA CR-176041.
- Reproduction
Microfiche. [Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration], 1985. 1 microfiche + negative.
- Funding
Contract NAS7-918
- Indexed Term
Microwave imagery; Satellite imagery; Remote sensing; Rivers; Lakes; Limnology; Surface water; Earth resources; Water resources; Fresh water; Rain forests; U.S.S.R.; Africa; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Iran; Chad; Nigeria; Sahara Desert (Africa); Zaire; Lake Baikal
- Added Author
Stacey, J. M.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
- Other Form:
Paper version: Microwave hydrology. [48] p. in various pagings. (OCoLC)702135235
- Gpo Item No.
0830-H-14 (MF)
- Sudoc No.
NAS 1.26:176042