Comparison of ocean-surface winds retrieved from quikscat scatterometer and radarsat-1 SAR in offshore waters of the U.S. West Coast

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 163-167

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Li, Xiaofeng ^b   Zheng, Quanan ^c   Gu, Xingfa ^a   Pichel, William G ^b   Li, Ziwei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; scatterometer; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); wind

Indexed keywords

COASTAL OCEAN; COASTAL REGIONS; DATA SETS; OFFSHORE WATER; QUIKSCAT; RADARSAT 1; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SCATTEROMETERS; SPACE DOMAIN; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE WINDS; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; WEST COAST;

COASTAL ZONES; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78650928748     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2053345     Document Type: Article

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