The PARIS ocean altimeter in-Orbit demonstrator

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2209-2237

  Martín Neira, Manuel ^a   D'Addio, Salvatore ^a   Buck, Christopher ^a   Floury, Nicolas ^a   Prieto Cerdeira, Roberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) reflectometry; ocean altimetry; passive reflectometry and interferometry system (PARIS) concept

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GNSS SIGNALS; GROUND-TRACK; IN-ORBIT; IONOSPHERIC DELAYS; MESOSCALE; MULTI FREQUENCY; OCEAN ALTIMETERS; OCEAN ALTIMETRY; OCEAN SCIENCE; PASSIVE REFLECTOMETRY AND INTERFEROMETRY SYSTEM (PARIS) CONCEPT; RADAR ALTIMETERS; REFLECTED SIGNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WIDE SWATH;

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORBITS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ALTIMETER; GNSS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IONOSPHERE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NADIR; RADAR ALTIMETRY; REFLECTOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE; SIGNAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

EID: 79957641708     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2092431     Document Type: Article

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