Impact of rain on spaceborne Ku-band wind scatterometer data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1973-1983

  Stiles, Bryan W ^a   Yueh, Simon H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Ocean winds; Rain; Remote sensing; Scatterometer

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; WIND;

BACKSCATTER MEASUREMENT; OCEAN WINDS; RAIN RATE MEASUREMENT; WIND SPEED;

RAIN;

EID: 0036763031     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.803846     Document Type: Article

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