Assessment of an analytical model for sea surface wind speed retrieval from spaceborne SAR

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 993-1008

  Xu, Qing ^a,b   Lin, Hui ^c   Li, Xiaofeng ^d   Zuo, Juncheng ^a   Zheng, Quanan ^e   Pichel, William G ^d   Liu, Yuguang ^f  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

^f OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR THEORY; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SPEED; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

ADVANCED SAR; BUOY MEASUREMENTS; COASTAL WATERS; EMPIRICAL ALGORITHMS; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RADARSAT-1 SAR; SEA-SURFACE WIND SPEED; SPACE-BORNE SAR;

ANALYTICAL MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL METHOD; COASTAL WATER; ENVISAT-1; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; HONG KONG; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951118403     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160902922870     Document Type: Article

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