A new technique to sense non-Gaussian features of the sea surface from L-band bi-static GNSS reflections

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2927-2937

  Cardellach, Estel ^a   Rius, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

GNSS oceanography; L band oceanography; Ocean wind retrieval; PARIS; Sea surface slopes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GNSS OCEANOGRAPHY; L-BAND OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEAN WIND RETRIEVAL; SEA SURFACE SLOPES;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

GAUSSIAN METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE; SKEWNESS; SLOPE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 43949116577     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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