Validating a scatterometer wind algorithm for ERS1 SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 479492-

  Fetterer, Florence ^b   Gineris, Denise ^a   Wackerman, Christopher C ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Institute of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Radar applications; Satellite applications; Synthetic aperture radar (sar); Wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747996782     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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