PAU in SeoSAT: A proposed hybrid L-band microwave radiometer/GPS reflectometer to improve sea surface salinity estimates from space

2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment - 10th Specialist Meeting, Proceedings, MICRORAD

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Camps, A ^a,b   Rodriguez Alvarez N ^a,b   Bosch Lluis, X ^a,b   Marchan J F ^a,b   Ramos Perez I ^a,b   Segarra, M ^c   Sagues Ll ^c   Tarrago D ^c   Cunado O ^c   Vilaseca, R ^c   Tomas A ^d   Mas, J ^d   Guillamon J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b IEEC CRAE/UPC

^c MIER Comunicaciones   (Spain)

^d NTE SA   (Spain)

^e AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; MICROWAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

INCIDENCE ANGLES; L-BAND RADIOMETER; L-BAND RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; ROUGHNESS SCALING; SEA STATES; SEA SURFACE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE SALINITIES;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 51849112374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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