Correlation of hydrodynamic features with LGA radar backscatter from breaking waves

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 2442-2460

  Fuchs, Jörn ^a   Regas, Dominic ^a   Waseda, Takuji ^a   Welch, Samuel ^a   Tulin, Marshall P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HYDRODYNAMICS; POLARIZATION; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACES;

BREAKING WAVES; CHIRP RADAR; CONCURRENT COPOLARIZATION RATIO; DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS; GRAZING ANGLE; HORIZONTAL COPOLARIZATION; RADAR BACKSCATTER; SCALING LAW; SEA SURFACE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033328418     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789641     Document Type: Article

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