The hurricane imaging radiometer wide swath simulation and wind speed retrievals

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4290-4293

  Amarin, Ruba A ^a   Jones, Linwood ^a   Johnson, James ^a   Ruf, Chris ^b   Miller, Timothy L ^c   Uhlhorn, Eric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

HIRAD; Hurricane imaging; Microwave radiometry; Wind speed retrievals

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE SENSORS; NASA; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; WIND;

END-TO-END SIMULATION; HIRAD; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT;

HURRICANES;

EID: 78650901031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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