A nonlinear optimization algorithm for windSat wind vector retrievals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 597-610

  Bettenhausen, Michael H ^a,b   Smith, Craig K ^a,c,d,g   Bevilacqua, Richard M ^b   Wang, Nai Yu ^e,f,h   Gaiser, Peter W ^a,b,i   Cox, Stephen ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^d AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g Naval Research Laboratory ^*

^h Bldg 142   (United States)

ⁱ WindSat Spaceborne Polarimetric Microwave Radiometer Demonstration Project

Author keywords

Microwave radiometer; Ocean surface winds; Polarimetric; Retrieval; Windsat

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; POLARIMETRIC; WINDSAT;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIMETERS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 31144454424     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.862504     Document Type: Article

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