Measurement of extreme wave height by ERS-2 SAR and numerical wave model (WAM)

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 901-904

  Li, Xiao Ming ^a,b   Koenig, Thomas ^a   Lehne, Susanne ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Extreme sea state; SAR wave mode data; WAM

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL WAVE MODELS (WAM); WAVE MODES;

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITES; STATISTICS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77649185902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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