Retrieval of sea surface range velocities from envisat ASAR doppler centroid measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 1, 2011, Pages 3582-3592

  Hansen, Morten Wergeland ^a   Collard, Fabrice ^b   Dagestad, Knut Frode ^a   Johannessen, Johnny A ^a,c   Fabry, Pierre ^b   Chapron, Bertrand ^d  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b CLS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Doppler measurements; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; BIAS CORRECTION; DOPPLER CENTROID; DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; DOPPLER SHIFTS; DOPPLER VELOCITY; ENVISAT; ENVISAT ASAR; INCIDENCE ANGLES; PROCESSING STEPS; RANGE DOPPLER; RANGE-VELOCITY; RESOLUTION IMAGES; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACES; WIDE SWATH;

DOPPLER EFFECT; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DOPPLER RADAR; ENVISAT-1; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 80053574340     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2153864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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