Evaluation of JERS-1 SAR images from a coastal wind retrieval point of view

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 491-500

  Shimada, Teruhisa ^a   Kawamura, Hiroshi ^a   Shimada, Masanobu ^b   Watabe, Isao ^c   Iwasaki, Sin Iti ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^d National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambiguities; Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS 1); L band model function; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wind retrieval

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

JERS-1 SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; L-BAND MODEL FUNCTION; WIND RETRIEVAL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1842586157     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.821268     Document Type: Article

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