Wind field structure and speed from Radarsat SAR images

Earth Observation Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 59, 1998, Pages 12-15

  Vachon, P W ^a   Chunchuzov, I ^a   Dobson, F W ^b  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; WIND SPEED;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RADARSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0031763682     PISSN: 0256596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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