Aquarius: An instrument to monitor sea surface salinity from space

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2040-2050

  Le Vine, David M ^a,b   Lagerloef, Gary S E ^c   Colomb, Fernando Raúl ^d   Yueh, Simon H ^a,e   Pellerano, Fernando A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Microwave remote sensing; Ocean salinity; Scatterometer

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN SALINITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIOMETRY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34347205559     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.898092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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