Ocean surface wind speed retrieval from c-band sar images without wind direction input

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 980-990

  Komarov, Alexander S ^a   Zabeline, Vladimir ^b   Barber, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buoy data; cross polarization (HV); marginal ice zone; RADARSAT 1; RADARSAT 2; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); wind direction; wind speed

Indexed keywords

BUOY DATA; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; RADARSAT 1; RADARSAT-2; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); POLARIZATION; RADAR ANTENNAS; SEA ICE; WIND;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; SEA SURFACE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84890965408     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2246171     Document Type: Article

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