X-band Low-Grazing-Angle ocean backscatter obtained during LOGAN 1993

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 18-26

  Rino, Charles L ^a,d,e,f,g,h   Eckert, Eric ^a   Siegel, Alan ^b   Webster, Timothy ^b   Ochadlick, Andy ^c,h   Rankin, Mike ^c,h   Davis, Jon ^c,h  

^a Vista Research Inc   (United States)

^b System Planning Corporation   (United States)

^c Naval Warfare Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^g Radiophysics Laboratory   (United States)

^h IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Low grazing angle; Radar backscatter; Sea spikes

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DOPPLER EFFECT; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROWAVES; RADAR; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; LOW GRAZING ANGLE; SEA SPIKES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0030645096     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/48.557536     Document Type: Article

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