Helping to accurately measure sea surface height: The NASA instrument suite on OSTM (Ocean Surface Topography Mission)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6361, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Basilio, Ralph R ^a   Abid, Mohamed M ^a   Brown, Shannon T ^a   Dorsey, Angela R ^a   Kitiyakara, Amarit ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS; Ocean; Radiometer; Retroreflector; Sea

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MARINE ENGINEERING; MEASUREMENT THEORY; RADIOMETERS;

OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; RETROREFLECTOR;

BATHYMETRY;

EID: 33845656911     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.691979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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