Wind speed effect on L-band brightness temperature inferred from EuroSTARRS and WISE 2001 field experiments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2206-2213

  Etcheto, Jacqueline ^a   Dinnat, Emmanuel P ^a   Boutin, Jacqueline ^a   Camps, Adriano ^b   Miller, J ^c   Contardo, Stéphanie ^a   Wesson, J ^c   Font, Jordi ^d   Long, David G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^e Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Foam; L band; Radiometry; Sea state spectrum; Sea surface salinity; Wave; Wind

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FOAMS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVE EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

L-BAND; SEA STATE SPECTRUM; SEA SURFACE SALINITY (SSS); VESECKY SPECTRUM;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 5044236200     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.834644     Document Type: Conference Paper

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