Modeling sun glitter at L-band for sea surface salinity remote sensing with SMOS

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2073-2087

  Reul, Nicolas ^a   Tenerelli, Joseph ^a   Chapron, Bertrand ^a   Waldteufel, Philippe ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Ocean remote sensing; Rough surface scattering; Sea surface salinity (SSS); Sun glitter

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE;

ASYMPTOTIC SCATTERING; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE SALINITY (SSS);

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 34347215787     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.890421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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