Observations of east coast upwelling conditions in synthetic aperture radar imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 pt 1, 1999, Pages 2239-2248

  Clémente Colon, Pablo ^a   Yan, Xiao Hai ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR SEA STABILITY; COASTAL UPWELLING CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE; NATURAL SLICKS; SEA SURFACE BACKSCATTER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0033189199     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789620     Document Type: Article

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