An inversion method for extraction of wind speed from high-frequency ground-wave radar oceanic Backscatter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3338-3346

  Green, David ^a   Gill, Eric ^b   Huang, Weimin ^c  

^a C CORE   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c Rutter Technologies   (Canada)

Author keywords

Doppler spectrum; High frequency (HF) ground wave radar; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER; DOPPLER SHIFTS; DOPPLER SPECTRA; DOPPLER SPECTRUM; FIELD DATA; FIRST-ORDER; GROUND TRUTH DATA; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF) GROUND-WAVE RADAR; HIGH-FREQUENCY RADAR; INVERSION METHODS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NEW APPROACHES; NOISY DATA; SEA-SURFACE WIND SPEED; SECOND ORDERS; WAVE RADARS; WEATHER STATIONS; WIND SPEED;

DOPPLER EFFECT; HURRICANE EFFECTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPEED; WIND EFFECTS;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

ANEMOMETER; DOPPLER EFFECT; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE; UNDERWATER NOISE; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVE SPECTRUM; WEATHER STATION; WIND VELOCITY;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350619190     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2022944     Document Type: Article

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