Altimetric analysis of the sea-surface GPS-reflected signals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2119-2127

  Rius, Antonio ^a   Cardellach, Estel ^a   Martín Neira, Manuel ^b  

^a INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GPS; Microwave ocean altimetry; Microwave ocean scatterometry; Sea surface reflections

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETRY; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE WATERS;

BISTATIC SYSTEMS; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; REAL SITUATION; REFLECTED SIGNAL; SCATTEROMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE REFLECTIONS;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

COASTAL ZONE; GPS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE; SIGNAL;

NORWAY;

EID: 79958026014     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2036721     Document Type: Article

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