High-resolution measurements with a spaceborne pencil-beam scatterometer using combined range/Doppler discrimination techniques

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 567-581

  Spencer, Michael W ^a   Tsai, Wu Yang ^a   Long, David G ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b 435 Crabtree Technology Building   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Ocean winds; Radar

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE QUALITY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIOMETERS; WIND;

COMBINED RANGE-DOPPLER DISCRIMINATION TECHNIQUES; OCEAN WINDS; SPACEBORNE PENCIL-BEAM SCATTEROMETER;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0038622978     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.809938     Document Type: Article

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