Status report on the remote sensing of current features by spaceborne synthetic aperture radar

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 565, 2004, Pages 105-123

  Romeiser, Roland ^a   Ufermann, Susanne ^b   Kern, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PHASE SHIFT; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DOPPLER CENTROID PROCESSING; GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM (GOOS); HYDRODYNAMIC MODULATION; WIND SPEED;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 18644377105     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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