RESSAC: A new airborne FM/CW radar ocean wave spectrometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 981-995

  Hauser, Danièle ^a   Caudal, Gérard ^a   Vidal Madjar, Daniel ^a   Laurent, Georges ^a   Rijckenberg, Gert Jan ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE RADAR; FM/CW RADAR; OCEAN WAVE SPECTROMETER; RESSAC RADAR SYSTEM;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 0026917456     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.175333     Document Type: Article

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