Retrieving sea surface salinity with multiangular L-band brightness temperatures: Improvement by spatiotemporal averaging

Radio Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Camps, A ^a   Vall llossera, M ^a   Batres, L ^a   Torres, F ^a   Duffo, N ^a   Corbella, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETERS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; SEA LEVEL; SOILS; THERMAL NOISE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVE IMAGING RADIOMETER; SEA SURFACE SALINITY (SSS); SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS);

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 20444382733     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004RS003040     Document Type: Article

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