The dependence of ocean backscatter at ku-band on oceanic and atmospheric parameters

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 581-600

  Nghiem, Son V ^a   Li, Fuk K ^a   Neumann, Gregory ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; BUOYS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS;

KU BAND SCATTEROMETERS; OCEAN BACKSCATTER; SURFACE WAVE DYNAMICS EXPERIMENT (SWADE);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031142278     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.581972     Document Type: Article

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