Design and calibration of the SeaWinds scatterometer

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 94-109

  Wu, Chialin ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Kellogg, Kent H ^a   Pak, Kyung S ^a   Glenister, Rodney L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DOPPLER EFFECT; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; WIND;

NADIR; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE WIND;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0038078497     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1188896     Document Type: Article

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