Earth-viewing L-band radiometer sensing of sea surface scattered celestial sky radiation - Part II: Application to SMOS

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 675-688

  Reul, Nicolas ^a   Tenerelli, Joseph E ^a   Floury, Nicolas ^b   Chapron, Bertrand ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Satellite   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Sea surface electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); RADIOMETERS;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SEA SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 40149102199     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.914804     Document Type: Article

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