Modeling of wind direction signals in polarimetric sea surface brightness temperatures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1400-1418

  Yueh, Simon H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GRAVITY WAVES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLARIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

POLARIMETRIC SEA SURFACE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES;

WIND;

EID: 0031275195     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.649793     Document Type: Article

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