Backscattering Model for Ocean Surface

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 811-817

  Chen, K S ^a   Fung, A K ^a   Weissman, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

OCEAN SURFACE; SURFACE BISPECTRUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS SPECTRUM; SURFACE SCATERING MODEL; SURFACE STATISTICS; WIND DIRECTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026896985     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.158877     Document Type: Article

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