Swim: A multi-incidence beams ku-band real aperture radar for the observation of the ocean wave field spectra

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Enjolras, Vivien ^a   Caube, Eric ^a   Richard, Jacques ^a   Lorenzo, Jerome ^a   Carayon, Guy ^b   Castillan, Patrick ^b  

^a THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Architecture; ocean wave; Performance; RF processing; Rodor

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH ANGLES; DIRECTIONAL SPECTRA; INCIDENCE ANGLES; KU-BAND; LOCAL WAVE; NADIR OBSERVATIONS; OCEAN WAVE; OCEAN WAVE FIELDS; OCEAN WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHIC SATELLITES; PERFORMANCE; REAL APERTURE RADAR; RF PROCESSING; RODOR; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SUN SYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; WIDE SWATH; WIND SPEED;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

EID: 67649757344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4780071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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