On the use of doppler shift for sea surface wind retrieval from SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 7 PART 2, 2012, Pages 2901-2909

  Mouche, Alexis A ^a   Collard, Fabrice ^a   Chapron, Bertrand ^b   Dagestad, Knut Frode ^c   Guitton, Gilles ^b   Johannessen, Johnny A ^c   Kerbaol, Vincent ^a   Hansen, Morten Wergeland ^c  

^a CLS   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Doppler; surface wind; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FRONTS; BAYESIAN INVERSION; DOPPLER; DOPPLER CENTROID; ENVISAT ASAR; FORECAST MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; IN-SITU; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INVERSION SCHEME; LINE-OF-SIGHT; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; OCEAN SURFACE CURRENTS; OCEAN SURFACES; RADAR RETURNS; RADAR VELOCITIES; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE WIND; SURFACE WINDS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND RETRIEVALS; WIND SPEED;

DOPPLER EFFECT; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SURFACE WATERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASCAT; DOPPLER EFFECT; ENVISAT-1; OCEANIC CURRENT; POLARIZATION; SEA SURFACE; SENTINEL; SURFACE WIND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84862994569     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2174998     Document Type: Article

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