Observations of Radar Backscatter at Ku and C Bands in the Presence of Large Waves during the Surface Wave Dynamics Experiment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 708-721

  Nghiem, S V ^a   Li, Fuk K ^a   Lou, Shu hsiang ^a   Neumann, Gregory ^a   McIntosh, Robert E ^b   Carson, Steven C ^b   Carswell, James R ^b   Walsh, Edward J ^c,d   Donelan, Mark A ^e   Drennan, William M ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION VELOCITY; INCIDENCE ANGLES; OCEAN RADAR BACKSCATTER; OFF NADIR BACKSCATTER; RADAR SCATTEROMETRY; SURFACE WAVE DYNAMICS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0029310143     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.387586     Document Type: Article

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