Retracking strategy based on waveform classification and sub-waveform extraction for coastal altimetry along China coastal seas

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 632-635

  Yang, Le ^a,b   Lin, Mingsen ^b   Liu, Qinhuo ^a   Pan, Delu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

Coastal altimetry; Waveform retracking

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WATERS; TIDE GAGES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

COASTAL ALTIMETRY; COASTAL SEAS; OCEAN RETRACKER; RETRACKING ALGORITHMS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WAVEFORM DATA; WAVEFORM RETRACKING;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 78650920128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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