Rain-flagging of the Envisat altimeter

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 2984-2986

  Quartly, Graham D ^a   Srokosz, Meric A ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Dual frequency altimetry; Envisat RA 2; Rain flagging

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DATA REDUCTION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; RAIN;

DUAL-FREQUENCY ALTIMETERS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

EID: 0242541068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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