A novel strategy for the surface current determination from marine X-Band radar data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 231-235

  Serafino, Francesco ^a   Lugni, Claudio ^b   Soldovieri, Francesco ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b INSEAN ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Image sequence analysis; Marine radar; Sea current; Sea state

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IMAGE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; KEY FACTORS; NOVEL STRATEGIES; RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURE; SEA CURRENT; SEA STATE; SEA STATE MONITORING; SURFACE CURRENT; SYNTHETIC DATA; X-BAND RADARS;

LIGHT MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADAR; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SHIPS;

MARINE RADAR;

EID: 77951204772     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2031878     Document Type: Article

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