Sea surface velocity vector retrieval using dual-beam interferometry: First demonstration

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2494-2502

  Toporkov, Jakov V ^a,b,d   Perkovic, Dragana ^a,c   Farquharson, Gordon ^a,c,e   Sletten, Mark A ^a,b   Frasier, Stephen J ^a,c,f,g,h  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^d Commission F of the US National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science ^*  (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UMass   (United States)

^g American Meteorological Society   (United States)

^h AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION   (United States)

Author keywords

Along track interferometry; Ocean surface currents; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; OCEAN SURFACE CURRENTS; VECTOR SURFACE VELOCITY;

AIRCRAFT; BATHYMETRY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 27844598248     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.848603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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