Deriving ocean surface drift using multiple SAR sensors

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 266-277

  Liu, Antony K ^a   Hsu, Ming Kuang ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN TAIWAN   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Feature tracking; Ocean surface drift; SAR; Ship wake; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; ENVISAT; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; FEATURE-TRACKING; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE FEATURES; MULTI SENSOR; OCEAN FEATURE; OCEAN SURFACES; OIL SLICKS; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; REPEATED CYCLE; SAR; SAR IMAGES; SAR SENSORS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SHIP WAKE; SINGLE SENSOR; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78649718135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1030266     Document Type: Article

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