New passive instruments developed for ocean monitoring at the remote sensing lab-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10171-10189

  Camps, Adriano ^a   Bosch Lluis, Xavier ^a   Ramos Perez, Isaac ^a   Marchán Hernández, Juan F ^a   Rodríguez, Nereida ^a   Valencia, Enric ^a   Tarongi, Jose M ^a   Aguasca, Albert ^a   Acevo, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Global navigation satellite reflectometers; Gnss r; Microwave radiometers; Ocean; Payload; Salinity; Sea state

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITES; GNSS-R; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OCEAN; PAYLOAD; SALINITY; SEA STATE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NASA; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTOMETERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; SPACE FLIGHT; SURFACE WATERS; WIND EFFECTS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 77950291192     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s91210171     Document Type: Article

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