Importance of the sea surface curvature to interpret the normalized radar cross section

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Mouche, Alexis A ^a,b   Chapron, B ^a   Reul, N ^a   Hauser, Daniele ^c   Quilfen, Y ^a  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

BACKSCATTER; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MODELING; RADAR IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE;

EID: 37349122748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC004010     Document Type: Article

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