The Eddy Experiment: GNSS-R speculometry for directional sea-roughness retrieval from low altitude aircraft

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Germain, O ^a   Ruffini, Giulio ^a   Soulat, F ^a   Caparrini, M ^a   Chapron, B ^b   Silvestrin, P ^c  

^a Starlab   (Spain)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

4275 Oceanography: General: Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes (0689); 4520 Oceanography: Physical: Eddies and mesoscale processes; 4594 Oceanography: Physical: Instruments and techniques; 6959 Radio Science: Radio oceanography; 6969 Radio Science: Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; EDDY CURRENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SEAWATER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WEATHER SATELLITES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEARCH ENGINES; SURFACE WATERS;

DELAY-DOPPLER-MAP (DDM) DATA; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM REFLECTIONS (GNSS-R); SCATTERER VELOCITY; WEATHER MODELS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EDDY; GNSS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; ROUGHNESS; SEA SURFACE;

DELAY-DOPPLER-MAP DATUM; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM REFLECTIONS; LOW ALTITUDES; MEAN SQUARE SLOPES; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; OPTICAL DATA; SCATTERER VELOCITY; SEA ROUGHNESS;

EID: 13244292497     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020991     Document Type: Article

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