Ground-based gnss-r measurements with the pau instrument and their application to the sea surface salinity retrieval: First results

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 530-533

  Marchan Hernandez, J F ^a,b   Vall Llossera, M ^a,b   Camps, A ^a,b   Rodriguez Alvarez, N ^a,b   Ramos Perez, I ^a,b   Valencia, E ^a,b   Bosch Lluis, X ^a,b   Talone, M ^a,b   Tarongi, J M ^a,b   Piles, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b IEEC CRAE/UPC   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay Doppler Maps; Reflectometry; Sea State

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OCEAN CURRENTS; REFLECTOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; REFLECTOMETRY; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

SURFACE WATERS;

EID: 67649768565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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