Wind- and wave-field measurements using marine X-band radar-image sequences

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 534-542

  Dankert, Heiko ^a   Horstmann, Jochen ^a   Rosenthal, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Friction velocity; Inversion; Marine radar; RAR; Real aperture radar; Surface; Waves; Wind; Wind field

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; MARINE RADAR; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR IMAGING; SENSORS; SURFACE WAVES; WIND;

FRICTION VELOCITY; IMAGING GEOMETRY; REAL APERTURE RADAR; WIND FIELD; WIND VECTOR;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 33144454771     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2005.857524     Document Type: Article

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