Current measurements by airborne along-track InSAR: Measuring technique and experimental results

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 552-569

  Romeiser, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current measurements; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETERS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE MODEL; ITERATIVE CORRECTION SCHEME;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 27744542656     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2005.857508     Document Type: Article

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