The Aquarius scatterometer an active system for measuring surface roughness for sea-surface brightness temperature correction

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1685-1688

  Freedman, Adam ^a   McWatters, Dalia ^a   Spencer, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean roughness; Radar scatterometer; Sea surface salinity

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS;

AQUARIUS SCATTEROMETER; OCEAN ROUGHNESS; RADAR SCATTEROMETERS; SEA-SURFACE SALINITY; TEMPERATURE CORRECTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 34948870263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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