Retracking altimeter waveforms near the coasts a review of retracking methods and some applications to coastal waveforms

Coastal Altimetry

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 61-101

  Gommenginger, C ^a   Thibaut, P ^b   Fenoglio Marc, L ^c   Quartly, G ^a   Deng, X ^d   Gomez Enri J ^e   Challenor, P ^a   Gao, Y ^f  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b CLS   (France)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^f FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Brown ocean retracker; Empirical retracker; Innovative techniques; On board tracker; Retracking; Waveforms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886193544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12796-0_4     Document Type: Chapter

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