Coherent GPS reflections from the sea surface

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-31

  Rivas, Maria Belmonte ^b   Martin Neira, Manuel ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ocean altimetry; Satellite navigation systems; Surface scattering; Tracking loops

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTUARIES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MARINE APPLICATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

CARRIER TRACKING ALGORITHMS; OCEAN ALTIMETRY; SURFACE SCATTERING; TRACKING LOOPS;

REFLECTION;

EID: 31144476564     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.855617     Document Type: Article

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