Microwave remote sensing modeling of ocean surface salinity and winds using an empirical sea surface spectrum

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1358-1361

  Yueh, Simon H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometer; Scatterometer; Sea surface spectrum

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA SURFACE SCATTERING MODEL; SEA SURFACE SPECTRUM;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 15944394079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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