Lake Surface Height Calibration of Jason-1 and Jason-2 Over the Great Lakes

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 33, Issue , 2010, Pages 186-203

  Cheng, Kai Chien ^a   Kuo, Chung Yen ^b   Tseng, Hong Zeng ^b   Yi, Yuchan ^c   Shum, C K ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute altimeter calibration; GPS buoy; Great Lakes; Jason 1; Jason 2

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052223308     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: 1521060X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2010.487802     Document Type: Article

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