Azimuthai harmonic coefficients of the microwave backscattering from a non-Gaussian ocean surface with the first-order SSA model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2600-2611

  Bourlier, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Non Gaussian statistics; Ocean remote sensing; Radar scattering; Scattering from rough surfaces

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; RADAR SCATTERING; SCATTERING FROM ROUGH SURFACES;

ATMOSPHERICS;

EID: 9944245581     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.836874     Document Type: Article

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