An advanced ambiguity selection algorithm for SeaWinds

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 538-547

  Draper, David W ^a   Long, David G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity selection; Karhunen Loeve model; Nudging; Scatterometer; SeaWinds

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADAR; STORMS; WIND;

AMBIGUITY SELECTION; CYCLONIC STORM; KARHUNEN-LOEVE WIND FIELD MODEL; OCEAN WINDS; RADAR BACKSCATTER; SCATTEROMETER; VECTOR WIND;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0038049064     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.810228     Document Type: Article

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