Passive remote sensing of sea foam using physically-based models

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3659-3662

  Anguelova, Magdalena D ^a   Bettenhausen, Michael H ^a   Gaiser, Peter W ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foam emissivity; Microwave radiometer; Sea foam; Sea spray; Sea surface spectrum; Whitecaps; WindSat

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FOAM EMISSIVITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SEA FOAM; SEA SPRAY; SEA SURFACE SPECTRUM; WHITECAPS; WINDSAT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 34948832153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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