Correction of the sea state impact in the L-band brightness temperature by means of delay-doppler maps of global navigation satellite signals reflected over the sea surface

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2914-2923

  Marchán Hernández, Juan Fernando ^a,b   Rodríguez Álvarez, Nereida ^a,b   Camps, Adriano ^a,b   Bosch Lluis, Xavier ^a,b   Ramos Pérez, Isaac ^a,b   Valencia, Enric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b IEEC CRAE/UPC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; Delay Doppler map (DDM); Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs); Sea state

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NAVIGATION; NOISE POLLUTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DELAY-DOPPLER MAP (DDM); GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS (GNSSS); SEA STATE;

NAVIGATION CHARTS;

EID: 48849087521     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.922144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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