High-resolution satellite measurements of coastal wind field and sea state

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 7337-7360

  Lehner, Susanne ^a   Pleskachevsky, Andrey ^a   Bruck, Miguel ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MARINE APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WIND EFFECTS;

BUOY MEASUREMENTS; COASTAL APPLICATIONS; COASTAL WIND FIELDS; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITES; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL SPECTRAL MODELS; SEA STATE PARAMETERS; UNDERWATER TOPOGRAPHIES;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DEEP WATER; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE; SWELL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84863833742     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.685975     Document Type: Article

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