Aquarius: A mission to monitor sea surface salinity from space

2006 IEEE MicroRad Proceedings - 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications, MicroRad'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 87-90

  Le Vine, D M ^a   Pellerano, F ^a   Lagerloef, G S E ^b   Yueh, S ^c   Colomb, R ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; SURFACE SALINITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 34250779271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRAD.2006.1677068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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