Comparison of derived wind speed from synthetic aperture radar and scatterometer during the ERS tandem phase

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 II, 2000, Pages 1113-1121

  Furevik, Birgitte R ^a,b   Korsbakken, Erik ^a,b  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SCATTEROMETER; WIND SPEED;

WIND;

EID: 0033901130     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841990     Document Type: Article

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