A Monte Carlo study of altimeter pulse returns and the electromagnetic bias

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3218-3224

  Naenna, Praphun ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Monte Carlo methods; remote sensing; sea surface electromagnetic (EM) scattering

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; APRIORI; EM SCATTERING; ERROR TERMS; LENGTH SCALE; MONTE CARLO PROCEDURES; MONTE CARLO STUDY; NON-LINEAR HYDRODYNAMICS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETRY; SCATTERING PROBLEMS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACES; SEA-SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM) SCATTERING; SHORT WAVES; SPECULAR SURFACE; SURFACE PROFILES; SURFACE SPECTRA;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SURFACE WATERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DECOMPOSITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SCATTERING; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 77954761994     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2045655     Document Type: Article

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