Relative Performance of the MLE3 and MLE4 Retracking Algorithms on Jason-2 Altimeter Waveforms

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 33, Issue , 2010, Pages 317-335

  Thibaut, P ^a   Poisson, J C ^a   Bronner, E ^b   Picot, N ^b  

^a CLS   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Radar altimetry; retracking; sigma bloom event; waveforms

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052195366     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: 1521060X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2010.491033     Document Type: Article

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