Performance simulation of a space-borne real aperture radar spectrometer for ocean wave spectra retrieval

Tien Tzu Hsueh Pao/Acta Electronica Sinica

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2867-2874

  Lin, Wen Ming ^a,b   Dong, Xiao Long ^a   Zhou, Yu Chi ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Directional spectrum; Modulation spectrum; Real aperture radar; Spectrometer

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIRECTIONAL RESOLUTION; DIRECTIONAL SPECTRA; DIRECTIONAL SPECTRUM; END-TO-END SIMULATION; HIGH PRECISION; MODULATION SPECTRUM; OCEAN SURFACES; OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA; OCEAN WAVES; PERFORMANCE SIMULATION; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; REAL APERTURE RADAR; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SPACE-BORNE; SPACEBORNE RADAR; WAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; WIND CONDITIONS;

DATA HANDLING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; WATER WAVES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 79952480635     PISSN: 03722112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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