Radar backscatter measurement accuracy for a spaceborne pencil-beam wind scatterometer with transmit modulation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 102-114

  Long, David G ^a   Spencer, Michael W ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Scatterometry; Seawinds; Wind measurement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GEOMETRY; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACECRAFT; WIND;

PENCIL BEAM SCATTEROMETER; POWER DETECTION; RADIOFREQUENCIES; SEAWINDS; TRANSMIT SIGNAL MODULATION; WIND MEASUREMENT;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0030780621     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.551939     Document Type: Article

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