Impact of sun glint on salinity remote sensing: An example with the aquarius radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3137-3150

  Dinnat, Emmanuel P ^a,b   Le Vine, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquarius; L band; Radiometry; Sea surface salinity (SSS); Sun glint

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORBITS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE;

AQUARIUS; L-BAND; SEA SURFACE SALINITY (SSS); SUN GLINT;

SUN;

EID: 53849096763     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2000629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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