Experimental relationship between the sea brightness temperature changes and the GNSS-R delay-Doppler maps: Preliminary results of the albatross field experiments

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Valencia, E ^a   Marchan Hernandez, J F ^a   Camps, A ^a   Rodriguez Alvarez, N ^a   Miguel Tarongi, J ^a   Piles, M ^a   Ramos Perez, I ^a   Bosch Lluis, X ^a   Vall llossera, M ^a   Ferre P ^a  

^a INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Delay Doppler map; GNSS R; Sea state; Sea surface salinity

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPERTIES; BEAM WIDTHS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITES; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACES; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EXPERIMENTS; GEOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MICROWAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77950957398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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