On dual co-polarized SAR measurements of the ocean surface

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 761-765

  Kudryavtsev, Vladimir N ^a,b   Chapron, Bertrand ^c   Myasoedov, Alexander G ^a   Collard, Fabrice ^d   Johannessen, Johnny A ^e  

^a RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center   (Russian Federation)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d CLS   (France)

^e NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Radar cross sections; Radar signal analysis; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892431618     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2222341     Document Type: Article

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