Wind vector inversion from RADARSAT SAR images: A new algorithm

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 51-54

  Zou, Qingping ^a,b   He, Yijun ^a,c   Perrie, Will ^a,b   Vachon, Paris ^d  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^d CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

RARDARSAT; SAR; Wind vector

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; VECTORS; WIND;

RARDARSAT; SAR; WIND RETRIEVAL MODEL; WIND VECTORS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 15944418624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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