Comparison of typhoon locations over ocean surface observed by various satellite sensors

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3172-3189

  Pan, Yufang ^a   Liu, Antony K ^a,b   He, Shuangyan ^b   Yang, Jingsong ^a,b   He, Ming Xia ^c  

^a Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Infrared images; Synthetic aperture radar; Typhoon eye; Wavelet transform; Wind shear

Indexed keywords

JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL; SATELLITE SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TYPHOON EYES; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WIND SHEARS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; INFRARED IMAGING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HURRICANES;

EID: 84881510571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5073172     Document Type: Article

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