author_facet Hu, Yongxiang
Lu, Xiaomei
Zeng, Xubin
Stamnes, Snorre A
Neuman, Thomas A.
Kurtz, Nathan T.
Zhai, Pengwang
Gao, Meng
Sun, Wenbo
Xu, Kuanman
Liu, Zhaoyan
Omar, Ali H.
Baize, Rosemary R.
Rogers, Laura J.
Mitchell, Brandon O.
Stamnes, Knut
Huang, Yuping
Chen, Nan
Weimer, Carl
Lee, Jennifer
Fair, Zachary
Hu, Yongxiang
Lu, Xiaomei
Zeng, Xubin
Stamnes, Snorre A
Neuman, Thomas A.
Kurtz, Nathan T.
Zhai, Pengwang
Gao, Meng
Sun, Wenbo
Xu, Kuanman
Liu, Zhaoyan
Omar, Ali H.
Baize, Rosemary R.
Rogers, Laura J.
Mitchell, Brandon O.
Stamnes, Knut
Huang, Yuping
Chen, Nan
Weimer, Carl
Lee, Jennifer
Fair, Zachary
author Hu, Yongxiang
Lu, Xiaomei
Zeng, Xubin
Stamnes, Snorre A
Neuman, Thomas A.
Kurtz, Nathan T.
Zhai, Pengwang
Gao, Meng
Sun, Wenbo
Xu, Kuanman
Liu, Zhaoyan
Omar, Ali H.
Baize, Rosemary R.
Rogers, Laura J.
Mitchell, Brandon O.
Stamnes, Knut
Huang, Yuping
Chen, Nan
Weimer, Carl
Lee, Jennifer
Fair, Zachary
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Gao, Meng
Sun, Wenbo
Xu, Kuanman
Liu, Zhaoyan
Omar, Ali H.
Baize, Rosemary R.
Rogers, Laura J.
Mitchell, Brandon O.
Stamnes, Knut
Huang, Yuping
Chen, Nan
Weimer, Carl
Lee, Jennifer
Fair, Zachary
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spellingShingle Hu, Yongxiang, Lu, Xiaomei, Zeng, Xubin, Stamnes, Snorre A, Neuman, Thomas A., Kurtz, Nathan T., Zhai, Pengwang, Gao, Meng, Sun, Wenbo, Xu, Kuanman, Liu, Zhaoyan, Omar, Ali H., Baize, Rosemary R., Rogers, Laura J., Mitchell, Brandon O., Stamnes, Knut, Huang, Yuping, Chen, Nan, Weimer, Carl, Lee, Jennifer, Fair, Zachary, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Deriving Snow Depth From ICESat-2 Lidar Multiple Scattering Measurements, General Medicine
title Deriving Snow Depth From ICESat-2 Lidar Multiple Scattering Measurements
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