Validation of Special Sensor Microwave Imager Monthly-Mean Wind Speed from July 1987 to December 1989

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 692-699

  Halpern, David ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SENSORS; SPEED; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND;

MONTHLY MEAN WIND SPEED; OCEAN SURFACE; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER (SSM/I);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027592144     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.225535     Document Type: Article

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