Laboratory Study of Polarized Scattering by Surface Waves at Grazing Incidence: Part I—Wind Waves

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1037-1046

  Rozenberg, Anatol D ^a   Quigley, Derek C ^a   Melville, W Kendall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WAVES;

BRAGG SCATTERING; DOPPLER SPECTRA; ELECTROMAGNETIC CLASSIFICATION; GRAZING INCIDENCE; POLARIZED SCATTERING; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WIND WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0029340283     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.406689     Document Type: Article

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