Using DDM asymmetry metrics for wind direction retrieval from GPS ocean-scattered signals in airborne experiments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3924-3936

  Valencia, Enric ^a,b   Zavorotny, Valery U ^b   Akos, Dennis M ^c   Camps, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay Doppler mapping; global navigation satellite system (GNSS); Global Positioning System (GPS); ocean remote sensing; ocean surface wind direction; Reflected GPS

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DELAY-DOPPLER MAPPING; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; REFLECTED GPS;

EXPERIMENTS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GNSS; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; ROUGHNESS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING; SIGNAL; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84896405033     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2278151     Document Type: Article

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