Scatterometer backscatter uncertainty due to wind variability

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3356-3361

  Portabella, Marcos ^a   Stoffelen, Ad ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Footprint; Geophysical error model; Measurement errors; Satellite applications; Scatterometer; Wind variability

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; TRACKING (POSITION); VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE (ERS); GEOPHYSICAL ERROR MODELS; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SCATTEROMETERS; WIND VARIABILITY;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 33750804659     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.877952     Document Type: Article

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