Ocean wind fields retrieved from radar-image sequences

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Dankert, H ^a   Horstmann, J ^a   Rosenthal, W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Marine radar; Neural networks; Real aperture radar; Wind

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACKSCATTER; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND FIELD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 1542376832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jc002056     Document Type: Article

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