Wind retrieval over the ocean using synthetic aperture radar with C-band HH polarization

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 2122-2131

  Horstmann, Jochen ^a   Koch, Wolfgang ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^a   Tonboe, Rasmus ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

HIGH RESOLUTION LIMITED AREA MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034271449     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.868871     Document Type: Article

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