Direction interval retrieval with thresholded nudging: A method for improving the accuracy of QuikSCAT winds

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 79-89

  Stiles, Bryan W ^a   Pollard, Brian D ^a   Dunbar, R Scott ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Backscatter; Ocean winds; Scatterometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; TRACKING (POSITION); WIND;

DIRECTION INTERVAL RETRIEVAL (DIR);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036196629     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.981351     Document Type: Article

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