The autocorrelation of waveforms generated from ocean-scattered GPS signals

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-82

  You, Huaizu ^a   Garrison, James L ^a   Heckler, Gregory ^a   Smajlovic, Dino ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multistatic scattering; Radar measurements; Radar scattering; Radar signal analysis; Random media; Remote sensing; Spread spectrum radar

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MULTISTATIC SCATTERING; RADAR MEASUREMENTS; RADAR SCATTERING; RADAR SIGNAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM MEDIA; SPREAD SPECTRUM RADAR;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 31144436842     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.856704     Document Type: Article

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