Wind resource assessment from C-band SAR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-81

  Bruun Christiansen, Merete ^a   Koch, Wolfgang ^b   Horstmann, Jochen ^b   Bay Hasager, Charlotte ^a   Nielsen, Morten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Envisat; ERS 2; Geophysical model function; Local gradient; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind Energy; Wind mapping; Wind resource assessment

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; RESOURCE VALUATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND POWER;

ENVISAT; ERS-2; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; LOCAL GRADIENT; WIND MAPPING; WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

WIND;

ENVISAT-1; ERS-2; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND DIRECTION; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 33750056992     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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