Remotely sensed river surface features compared with modeling and in situ measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Plant, William J ^a   Branch, Ruth ^a   Chatham, Gene ^a   Chickadel, C Chris ^a   Hayes, Ken ^a   Hayworth, Bronwyn ^b,c   Horner Devine, Alexander ^b   Jessup, Andrew ^a   Fong, Derek A ^d   Fringer, Oliver B ^d   Giddings, Sarah N ^d   Monismith, Stephen ^d   Wang, Bing ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DOPPLER RADAR; RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIDES;

DEEP HOLES; EVERETT , WASHINGTON; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INFRARED FREQUENCIES; MODEL RESULTS; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE OBSERVATION; RIVER BANK; SNOHOMISH RIVER; SURFACE FEATURE; SURFACE VELOCITY; TIDAL CYCLE; TIDAL FLOW; TIDAL RANGES; WIND WAVE; X BANDS;

RIVERS;

BATHYMETRY; DOPPLER RADAR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER SYSTEM; TIDAL RANGE; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

SNOHOMISH RIVER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 76749136862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005440     Document Type: Article

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