Directional analysis of SAR images aiming at wind direction

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 702-710

  Koch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic wind direction retrieval; Image filtering; Image processing; Numerical recipe; Ocean winds; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Wind streaks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; WIND;

AUTOMATIC WIND DIRECTION RETRIEVAL; IMAGE FILTERING; NUMERICAL RECIPE; OCEAN WINDS; WIND STREAKS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 2442593185     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.818811     Document Type: Article

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