A wide-swath, hurricane imaging radiometer for airborne operational measurements

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2533-2537

  Johnson, James W ^a   Amarin, Ruba A ^a   El Nimri, Salem F ^a   Linwood Jones, W ^a   Bailey, Marion C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; JET AIRCRAFT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE OPERATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; STEPPED FREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; UNPILOTED AERIAL VEHICLES; WIND SPEED;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 34948814480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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