An L-band geophysical model function for SAR wind retrieval using JERS-1 SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 518-531

  Shimada, Teruhisa ^a   Kawamura, Hiroshi ^a   Shimada, Masanobu ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 synthetic aperture radar (JERS 1 SAR); L band model function; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wind retrieval

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WIND;

L-BAND GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR WIND RETRIEVAL; THIRD-ORDER HARMONICS FORMULA;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0037608742     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.808836     Document Type: Article

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