Tradeoffs in the design of a spaceborne scanning pencil beam scatterometer: application to seawinds

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-126

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar; Scatterometry; Seawinds; Wind measurement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY MODULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIND;

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; PENCIL BEAM SCATTEROMETER; SEAWINDS; WIND MEASUREMENT;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0030787705     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.551940     Document Type: Article

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