Sensitivity analysis of wind vector measurements from ocean reflected GPS signals

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 341-350

  Zuffada, Cinzia ^a   Elfouhaily, Tanos ^b   Lowe, Stephen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

GPS signals; Scattered fields; Wind vector

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VECTORS; WIND;

ALEVATION ANGLES; WIND SPEED;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

AIRBORNE SENSING; GPS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND FIELD;

EID: 0842284616     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00175-5     Document Type: Article

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