PAU instrument aboard INTA MicroSat-1: Flight model tests

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1038-1041

  Alonso, A ^a   Camps, A ^a   Pascual, D ^a   Park, H ^a   Alcayde, A ^b   Chavero, S ^b   Martinez, P ^b   Crespo, L ^b   Angulo, M ^c   Rius, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Pol Industrial Bonavista Nord   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Delay Doppler Map (DDM); Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS R); Microwave Radiometry; Sea Surface Salinity (SSS); Sea state

Indexed keywords

DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; REFLECTOMETRY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA-STATE;

GEOLOGY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OCEAN CURRENTS; REFLECTOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84873156784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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