A comparison of ocean topography derived from the shuttle laser altimeter-01 and TOPEX/POSEIDON

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1425-1438

  Behn, Mark D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance measurement; Geodesy; Remote sensing; Sea; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; GEODESY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

MICROWAVE RANGING SYSTEMS; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY; SHUTTLE LASER ALTIMETER;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

EID: 0033686094     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.843037     Document Type: Article

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