Sea state monitoring using coastal GNSS-R

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Soulat, F ^a   Caparrini, M ^a   Germain, O ^a   Lopez Dekker, P ^a   Taani, M ^a   Ruffini, Giulio ^a  

^a Reseach Department   (Spain)

Author keywords

4294 Oceanography: General: Instruments and techniques; 4560 Oceanography: Physical: Surface waves and tides (1255); 4594 Oceanography: Physical: Instruments and techniques; 6959 Radio Science: Radio oceanography; 6994 Radio Science: Instruments and techniques

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUOYS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; DATA ACQUISITION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REFLECTION; SEAWATER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

INTERFEROMETRIC COMPLEX FIELD (ICF); MEAN WAVE PERIOD (MWP); SEA STATE MONITORING; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT (SWH);

OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEAN CURRENTS;

GPS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA STATE;

EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETRIC COMPLEX FIELDS; MEAN WAVE PERIOD; OCEANOGRAPHIC BUOYS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEA STATE MONITORING; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELING; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT;

EID: 13244292501     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020680     Document Type: Article

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