A Wind-Wave Tank Study of the Azimuthal Response of a Ka-Band Scatterometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 143-148

  Giovanangeli, Jean Paul ^a   Calve, Olivier Le ^a   Bliven, Larry F ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RADAR - CROSS SECTIONS; RADAR IMAGING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

KA-BAND SCATTEROMETER; SCATTEROMETER AZIMUTHAL RESPONSE; WIND-GENERATED WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 0025792527     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.103304     Document Type: Article

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