Use of ERS-1 wind scatterometer data over land surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 550-560

  Frison, P L ^a   Mougin, E ^a  

^a CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; LANDFORMS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SURFACES;

RADIOMETRIC STABILITY; SEASAT SCATTEROMETER SYSTEM; WIND SCATTEROMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030109071     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.485131     Document Type: Article

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