High resolution wind field retrieval from synthetic aperture radar: North Sea examples

Remote Sensing of the European Seas

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 331-342

  Horstmann, Jochen ^a   Koch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 77952428803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6772-3_25     Document Type: Chapter

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