Simulation of L-band bistatic returns from the ocean surface: A facet approach with application to ocean GNSS reflectometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 960-971

  Clarizia, Maria Paola ^a,b   Gommenginger, Christine ^a   Di Bisceglie, Maurizio ^b   Galdi, Carmela ^b   Srokosz, Meric A ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Facet approach (FA); Global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS R); Kirchhoff approximation (KA); Ocean waves; Polarization; Scattering

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; FORWARD SCATTERING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SATELLITES; SCATTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE SCATTERING; SURFACE WATERS; WATER WAVES;

FACET APPROACH (FA); GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATIONS; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; POLARIZATION EFFECT; POLARIZATION RATIOS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; REFLECTOMETRY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84966415508     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2162245     Document Type: Article

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