Resolution improvement of ERS scatterometer data over land by Wiener filtering

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 261-271

  Álvarez Pérez, José L ^a   Marshall, Stewart J ^a   Gregson, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND;

LINEAR WIENER FILTERS; SCATTEROMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ERS-1; ERS-2; LAND SURFACE; SCATTEROMETER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 0343920875     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00071-1     Document Type: Article

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