Theoretical expression for an ocean internal soliton synthetic aperture radar image and determination of the soliton characteristic half width

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C12, 2001, Pages 31415-31423

  Zheng, Quanan ^a   Yuan, Yeli ^b   Klemas, Vic ^a   Yan, Xiao Hai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERS-1; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNAL WAVE; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0035723101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000726     Document Type: Article

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