Effects of the antenna aperture on remote sensing of sea Surface salinity at L-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2051-2060

  Dinnat, Emmanuel P ^b   Le Vine, David M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna radiation patterns; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Sea surface

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MICROWAVE DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ANTENNA APERTURE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SEA SURFACE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 34347244508     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.890807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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