Ocean wind fields and their variability derived from SAR

Earth Observation Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 59, 1998, Pages 8-12

  Horstmann, J ^a   Koch, Wolfgang ^b   Lehner, S ^a   Rosenthal, W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; WIND VELOCITY;

ERS-1; ERS-2; ROUGHNESS; SEA SURFACE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND FIELD;

EID: 0032424523     PISSN: 0256596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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