Validation and calibration of ASCAT using CMOD5.n

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 386-395

  Verspeek, Jeroen ^a   Stoffelen, Ad ^a   Portabella, Marcos ^b   Bonekamp, Hans ^c   Anderson, Craig ^c   Saldaña, Julia Figa ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^c EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

ASCAT; Backscatter; Calibration; CMOD5; Metop; Radar scattering; Scatterometer; Wind

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; BACKSCATTER DATA; BIAS CORRECTION; BUOY MEASUREMENTS; CALIBRATION METHOD; CMOD5; DATA PROCESSORS; ERS DATA; ERS SCATTEROMETER; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; HIGH QUALITY; INCIDENCE ANGLES; NETHERLANDS; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; PRODUCT VALIDATION; RADAR SCATTERING; RMS ERRORS; SCATTEROMETERS; WIND COMPONENTS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED; WIND VECTORS;

BACKSCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 73249116774     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2027896     Document Type: Article

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