Earth-viewing L-band radiometer sensing of sea surface scattered celestial sky radiation - Part I: General characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 659-674

  Tenerelli, Joseph E ^a   Reul, Nicolas ^a   Mouche, Alexis A ^a,b   Chapron, Bertrand ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Radiometry; Remote sensing; Scattering

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SCATTERING;

CELESTIAL SKY RADIATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY (SSS);

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 40149101296     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.914803     Document Type: Article

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