Land-contamination compensation for QuikSCAT near-coastal wind retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 839-850

  Owen, Michael P ^a   Long, David G ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Scattering; Wind

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; FADING (RADIO); METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCATTERING; TABLE LOOKUP; WIND;

COASTAL REGIONS; COASTAL WINDS; CONTRIBUTION RATIOS; HIGH RESOLUTION PROCESSING; LAND CONTAMINATION; MINIMUM DISTANCE; SCATTEROMETERS; WIND RETRIEVALS;

CONTAMINATION;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; CONTAMINATED LAND; DATA ACQUISITION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 61349112668     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2005633     Document Type: Article

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