Simulated radar imagery of an ocean "spiral eddy"

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2325-2331

  Cooper, A L ^a   Shen, C Y ^a   Marmorino, G O ^a   Evans, T ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Current convergence; Ocean submesoscale; Radar imagery; Remote sensing; Slicks; Spiral eddy; Surface film; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; SEAWATER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CURRENT CONVERGENCE; OCEAN SUBMESOSCALE; SLICKS; SPIRAL EDDY; SURFACE FILM;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 27744602450     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.855624     Document Type: Article

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