Measurement of 2-D sea surface elevation fields using complex synthetic aperture radar data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1149-1160

  Schulz Stellenfleth, Johannes ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Individual waves; Ocean waves; Sea surface elevation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; WATER WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIVIDUAL WAVES; SEA SURFACE ELEVATION; WAVE FIELDS; WAVE MOTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 3042611502     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.826811     Document Type: Article

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