The windSat spaceborne polarimetric microwave radiometer: Sensor description and early orbit performance

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2347-2361

  Gaiser, Peter W ^a   St Germain, Karen M ^a   Twarog, Elizabeth M ^a   Poe, Gene A ^a   Purdy, William ^a   Richardson, Donald ^b   Grossman, Walter ^c   Jones, W L ^d   Spencer, David ^a   Golba, Gerald ^a   Cleveland, Jeffrey ^a   Choy, Larry ^a   Bevilacqua, Richard M ^a   Chang, Paul S ^e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^c Applied Systems Engineering Inc   (United States)

^d Microwave Remote Sensing Consultants   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean surface winds; Remote sensing; Windsat

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORBITS; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; VECTORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; SPACEBORNE SCATTEROMETERS; WIND DIRECTION; WINDSAT;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 9944251475     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.836867     Document Type: Article

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