A new wind vector algorithm for C-band SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1453-1457

  He, Yijun ^a,b,e   Perrie, William ^b,c   Zou, Qingping ^b,c   Vachon, Paris W ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e Remote Sensing Group   (China)

Author keywords

Retrieval; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Wind vector

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER WINDS; RETRIEVAL; SCATTEROMETER DATA; WIND VECTOR;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARINE ENGINEERING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; WIND;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 23844457277     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.848411     Document Type: Article

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