Resolution Enhancement of Spaceborne Scatterometer Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 700-715

  Long, David G ^a   Hardin, Perry J ^a   Whiting, Peter T ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; WIND;

RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SEASAT A SCATTEROMETER (SASS); SPACEBORNE WIND SCATTEROMETER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027591430     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.225536     Document Type: Article

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