Aquarius: A passive/active microwave sensor to monitor sea surface salinity globally from space

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5654, Issue , 2004, Pages 122-128

  Le Vine, David ^a   Lagerloef, Gary S E ^b   Colomb, F Raul ^c   Chao, Yi ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Comision Nacionales de Actividades Espaciales ^*  (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometer; Microwave scatterometer; Remote sensing; Sea surface salinity

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EXCHANGE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE SCATTEROMETERS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 20344374182     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.579424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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