Extracting fine-scale wind fields from synthetic aperture radar images of the ocean surface

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 108-115

  Mourad, Pierre D ^a   Thompson, Donald R ^a   Vandemark, Douglas C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; RADAR IMAGING; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC ROLL VORTICES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033909014     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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