Sea surface salinity and wind retrieval using combined passive and active L-band microwave observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1022-1032

  Yueh, Simon H ^a   Chaubell, Julian ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; ocean wind; radar; radiometer

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; AQUARIUS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; LEAST SQUARE ERRORS; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MODEL FUNCTIONS; OCEAN SURFACES; OCEAN WINDS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACES; SPACE-BORNE; WARM WATER; WIND RETRIEVALS; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; MICROWAVES; NASA; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE; WIND EFFECTS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84859759166     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2165075     Document Type: Article

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