High resolution ocean surface wind fields retrieved from spaceborne synthetic aperture radars operating at C-band

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 565, 2004, Pages 61-67

  Horstmann, Jochen ^a   Koch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

C band; Ocean surface; Polarization; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind direction; Wind field; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COASTAL ZONES; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER SATELLITES;

C-BAND; OCEAN SURFACE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELDS; WIND SPEED;

WIND;

EID: 18644363285     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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