On the Estimation of Wave Slope-and Height-Variance Spectra from SAR Imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-24, Issue 4, 1986, Pages 543-551

  Monaldo, Frank M ^a   Lyzenga, David R ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Radar Division Enviromental Research Institute of Michigan ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY - IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADAR - SYNTHETIC APERTURE; RADAR IMAGING - SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE SHUTTLES - REMOTE SENSING;

2-D OCEAN WAVE SLOPE- AND HEIGHT-VARIANCE SPECTRA; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SAR WAVE IMAGERY; SHUTTLE IMAGING RADAR (SIR-B);

WATER WAVES;

EID: 0022757576     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1986.289669     Document Type: Article

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