Spaceborne GNSS-R minimum variance wind speed estimator

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6829-6843

  Clarizia, Maria Paola ^a,b   Ruf, Christopher S ^a   Jales, Philip ^c   Gommenginger, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delay Doppler map; global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) reflectometry; minimum variance (MV) estimator; ocean surface wind speed

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; NASA; NAVIGATION; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STORMS; WIND;

DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITES; MINIMUM VARIANCE; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; PARTIAL DE-CORRELATION; REFLECTOMETRY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GNSS; REFLECTOMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84902110596     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2303831     Document Type: Article

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