Wind retrieval capability of rotating, range-gated, fanbeam spaceborne scatterometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4881, Issue , 2002, Pages 268-279

  Lin, Chung Chi ^a   Stoffelen, Ad ^b   De Kloe, Joost ^b   Wismann, Volkmar ^c   Bartha, Sven ^d   Schulte, Hans Reiner ^d  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c Institute for Applied Remote Sensing   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Ocean wind; Radar simulations; Satellite; Wind retrieval performance; Wind scatterometer

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WIND;

WIND SCATTEROMETERS;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

EID: 0041730311     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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