Wind and wave observations off the south Pacific Coast of Mexico using TerraSAR-X imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4933-4955

  Díaz Méndez, Guillermo M ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^b   Ocampo Torres, Francisco J ^c   Li, Xiao Ming ^b   Brusch, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WIND;

HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE INTENSITIES; OFFSHORE WINDS; PACIFIC COASTS; SAR REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WAVE PARAMETERS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE ENERGY; WIND VELOCITY;

GULF OF TEHUANTEPEC; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [MEXICO]; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77957692675     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.485217     Document Type: Article

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