A Ku-Band Laboratory Experiment on the Electromagnetic Bias

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1165-1179

  Branger, Hubert ^a   Ramamonjiarisoa, Alfred ^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

ALGORITHMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIO ALTIMETERS; WIND EFFECTS;

GEOMETRIC MEAN SEA LEVEL; MEAN REFLECTING SURFACE; MICROWAVE FOOTPRINT; SATELLITE ALTIMETER POTENTIAL; WIND-WAVE FACILITY;

TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0027694478     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.317446     Document Type: Article

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