Ocean winds from radarsat-1 scansar

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 524-533

  Horstmann, Jochen ^a   Koch, Wolfgang ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^b   Tonboe, Rasmus ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYERS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND;

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; HIGH-RESOLUTION LIMITED AREA MODELS; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; POLARIZATION RATIOS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; VERTICAL POLARIZATION; WIND INDUCED STREAKS;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 0242276849     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m02-043     Document Type: Article

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