Scattering of GPS signals from the ocean with wind remote sensing application

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 II, 2000, Pages 951-964

  Zavorotny, Valéry U ^a   Voronovich, Alexander G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

BISTATIC ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; DELAY MAPPING TECHNIQUE; DOPPLER SPREADING EFFECT; KIRCHOFF APPROXIMATION; SEA SURFACE REMOTE SENSING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0033899077     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841977     Document Type: Article

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