Contribution of the TOPEX NASA radar altimeter to the global monitoring of large rivers and wetlands

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1223-1239

  Birkett, Charon M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER; WETLANDS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; RADAR; RADAR EQUIPMENT; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RIVERS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GLOBAL MONITORING; HEIGHT VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL MONITORING; SENSOR DATA RECORDS; SPARSE DISTRIBUTION; TOPEX/POSEIDON; WATER LEVEL VARIATIONS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 0031961423     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00124     Document Type: Article

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