Wind speed measurement using forward scattered GPS signals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 50-65

  Garrison, James L ^a,b   Komjathy, Attila ^c   Zavorotny, Valery U ^d   Katzberg, Stephen J ^e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistatic radar; Global positioning system (GPS); Oceanography; Retrievals; Scatterometry

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC RADAR;

ALGORITHMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RADAR; RADIO NAVIGATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WIND;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 0036193743     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.981349     Document Type: Article

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