Accuracy of scatterometer-derived winds using the Cramer-Rao bound
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Accuracy of scatterometer-derived winds using the Cramer-Rao bound
A wind scatterometer makes measurements of the normalized radar-backscatter coefficient of the ocean surface. To retrieve the wind, a geophysical model function (GMF), which relates to the near-surface wind, is used. The wind vector can be estimated using maximum-likelihood techniques from several measurements made at different azimuth angles. The probability density of the measured is assumed ...
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0196-2892
DOI: 10.1109/36.803412