Mediterranean Balloon Experiment: Ocean wind speed sensing from the stratosphere, using GPS reflections

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 351-362

  Cardellach, Estel ^a,e   Ruffini, Giulio ^b   Pino, David ^a   Rius, Antonio ^a   Komjathy, Attila ^c,e   Garrison, James L ^d  

^a INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^b Starlab   (Spain)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistatic radar; Global Positioning System (GPS); Oceanography; Scatterometry

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

BISTATIC MODELS; MEDITERRANEAN BALLOON EXPERIMENTS (MEBEX);

REMOTE SENSING;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; GNSS; GPS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0842349502     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00176-7     Document Type: Article

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