Evaluation of retracking algorithms over China and adjacent coastal seas

Coastal Altimetry

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 453-471

  Yang, L ^a,b   Lin, M ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Bao, L ^c   Pan, D ^a,b  

^a Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Altimeter; China coastal seas; Waveform retracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880010195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12796-0_17     Document Type: Chapter

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