Stochastic voltage model and experimental measurement of ocean-scattered GPS signal statistics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2160-2169

  You, Huaizu ^a   Garrison, James L ^a   Heckler, Gregory ^a   Zavorotny, Valery U ^b  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global positioning system (GPS); Multistatic scattering; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SIGNAL THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; MULTISTATIC SCATTERING; STOCHASTIC VOLTAGE MODEL;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 7044245723     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.834628     Document Type: Conference Paper

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