Dual-polarization measurements at C-band over the ocean: Results from airborne radar observations and comparison with ENVISAT ASAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 753-769

  Mouche, Alexis A ^a   Hauser, Danièle ^a   Daloze, Jean François ^a   Guérin, Christine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

Normalized radar cross section (NRCS); Ocean surface; Polarization difference; Polarization ratio; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Wavebreaking; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND EFFECTS;

NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS-SECTION (NRCS); OCEAN SURFACE; POLARIZATION DIFFERENCE; POLARIZATION RATIO; WAVEBREAKING; WIND SPEED;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 16444372776     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.843951     Document Type: Article

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