Evaluation of a new airborne microwave remote sensing radiometer by measuring the salinity gradients across the shelf of the great barrier reef lagoon

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3701-3710

  Wang, Yonghong ^b,c   Heron, Malcolm L ^a,b,c   Prytz, Arnstein ^c   Ridd, Peter V ^c   Steinberg, Craig R ^d   Hacker, Jörg M ^e  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^e FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Great Barrier Reef (GBR); Microwave radiometer; Remote sensing; Sea surface salinity

Indexed keywords

GREAT BARRIER REEF (GBR); MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRADIENT METHODS; REEFS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEWAGE LAGOONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 35648986171     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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