Observation of typhoon eyes on the sea surface using multi-sensors

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 434-442

  Cheng, Yu Hsin ^a   Huang, Shih Jen ^a   Liu, Antony K ^b   Ho, Chung Ru ^a   Kuo, Nan Jung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar; Typhoon eye; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGES; MULTI SENSOR; SEA SURFACES; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

HURRICANES;

CLOUD; EYE; INFRARED IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TILT; TYPHOON; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 84860990816     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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