Signal-to-noise ratio analysis to estimate ocean wave heights from X-band marine radar image time series

IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-41

  Nieto Borge, J C ^a   Hessner, K ^b   Jarabo Amores, P ^a   De La Mata Moya, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b OceanWaveS GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; MARINE RADAR; OCEAN CURRENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SPECTRUM; WAVE HEIGHT; X-BAND MARINE RADARS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 37549060938     PISSN: 17518784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn:20070027     Document Type: Article

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