A new algorithm for wind-vector retrieval from scatterometers

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 387-391

  Gohil, B S ^a   Sarkar, Abhijit ^a   Agarwal, Vijay K ^a  

^a Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Oceansat 2; QuikSCAT; Scatterometer; Windvector retrieval

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; STANDARDS; VECTORS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS; EUROPEAN; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION (GMF); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (MLET); NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION (NCEP); NEW ALGORITHM; QUIKSCAT; RETRIEVAL (MIR); RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SCATTEROMETERS; SIMULATION RESULTS; STANDARD DEVIATION (STD); WEATHER FORECASTS; WIND SPEED (WS);

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 47849122683     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.917129     Document Type: Article

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