Direct ocean surface velocity measurements from space: Improved quantitative interpretation of Envisat ASAR observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Johannessen, J A ^a,b   Chapron, B ^c   Collard, F ^d,e   Kudryavtsev, V ^a,f,g   Mouche, A ^d,e   Akimov, D ^f   Dagestad, K F ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d Brest Operational Observation System and Technologies (BOOST)   (France)

^e CLS Direction of Radar Applications   (France)

^f Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center   (Russian Federation)

^g MARINE HYDROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; COMBINED INFORMATIONS; DOPPLER FREQUENCY SHIFTS; DOPPLER SHIFTS; DYNAMIC PROPERTIES; ENVISAT; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; IMAGING MODELS; LINE OF SIGHTS; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; OCEAN SURFACES; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATIONS; QUANTITATIVE STUDIES; SHORTER WAVES; SURFACE CURRENTS; WAVE MOTIONS; WAVE-BREAKING;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER EFFECT; ENVISAT-1; OCEAN WAVE; OCEANIC CURRENT; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 60149112928     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035709     Document Type: Article

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