The analysis of wind exponents retrieved from microwave radar and radiometrie measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 1 II, 2000, Pages 470-479

  Trokhimovski, Yuri G ^a   Irisov, Vladimir G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; Sea wave spectrum

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DONELAN-PIERSON METHOD; SYMMETRIC-REGRESSION METHODS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033881882     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.823942     Document Type: Article

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