Ocean surface wind speed and direction retrievals from the SSM/I

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1866-1871

  Chang, Paul S ^a   Li, Li ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Neural network applications; Ocean surface winds; Special sensor microwave imager (ssm i); Wind retrieval algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HEAT RADIATION; IMAGE SENSORS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOMETRY; WIND;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS (SSM/I); WIND RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032207961     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.729357     Document Type: Article

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