Operational monitoring of coastal and marine environment with spaceborne SAR systems: Where are we now and where are we going

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 565, 2004, Pages 3-12

  Wackerman, Christopher ^a   Johannessen, Johnny ^b  

^a GENERAL DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MARINE ENGINEERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WATER WAVES; WIND;

ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS; MARINE ENVIRONMENTS; MARINE MONITORING; OPERATIONAL MONITORING;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 18644383030     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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