Estimation of offshore wind resources in coastal waters off Shirahama using ENVISAT ASAR images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2883-2897

  Takeyama, Yuko ^a   Ohsawa, Teruo ^b   Yamashita, Tomohiro ^b   Kozai, Katsutoshi ^b   Muto, Yasunori ^c   Baba, Yasuyuki ^d   Kawaguchi, Koji ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e PORT AND AIRPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ENVISAT; Japanese coastal waters; Offshore wind resource assessment; Synthetic aperture radar; WRF

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; COASTAL WATERS; ENVISAT; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGICAL MODEL; OFF SHORE PLATFORMS; OFFSHORE WIND RESOURCES; WRF;

DRILLING PLATFORMS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84880420159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5062883     Document Type: Article

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