Longshore surface currents measured by doppler radar and video PIV techniques

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2787-2800

  Perkovic, Dragana ^a   Lippmann, Thomas C ^b   Frasier, Stephen J ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Radar velocity measurement; Sea surface; Video signal processing

Indexed keywords

ALONGSHORE CURRENT; ALONGSHORE FLOW; BACKSCATTERED RADIATION; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DOPPLER SHIFTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; PARTICLE IMAGING VELOCIMETRY; PIV TECHNIQUES; REMOTE MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACES; SURF ZONES; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE VELOCITY; TIME INTERVAL;

DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRON OPTICS; FLOW PATTERNS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

BEACH; DOPPLER RADAR; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; FLOW PATTERN; LONGSHORE CURRENT; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURF ZONE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCITY PROFILE; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EID: 67949104952     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2016556     Document Type: Article

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