Airborne infrared remote sensing of riverine currents

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3895-3907

  Dugan, J P ^a   Anderson, S P ^a   Piotrowski, C C ^a   Zuckerman, S B ^a  

^a ARETÉ ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Estuarine; infrared (IR); remote sensing; riverine; surface currents; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE; WATER LEVELS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; ESTUARINE; INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; RIVERINE; SURFACE CURRENT; TEMPERATURE MODULATION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; WATER SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; DOPPLER RADAR; FILTER; MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER FLOW;

EID: 84896405120     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2277815     Document Type: Article

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