Publications

Press Release - NRL WindSat Experiment Launches January 6

NRL Review article - WindSat - Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface Winds

"The WindSat space borne polarimetric microwave radiometer: sensor description and early orbit performance", P.W. Gaiser, IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 2347-2361, 2004. (View as PDF)

"A statistical approach to WindSat ocean surface wind vector retrievals," C.K. Smith, IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 164-168, 2006. (View as PDF)

"Deep-space calibration of the WindSat radiometer," W.L. Jones, IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 476-495, 2006. (View as PDF)

"Geolocation and pointing accuracy analysis for the WindSat sensor," W.E. Purdy, IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 496-505, 2006. (View as PDF)

"WindSat on-orbit warm load calibration," E.A. Twarog, W.E. Purdy, IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 516-529, 2006. (View as PDF)

"WindSat radio-frequency interference signature and its identification over land and ocean," L.Li, IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 530-539, 2006. (View as PDF)

"Effects of foam on ocean surface microwave emission inferred from radiometric observations of reproducible breaking waves," S. Padmanabhan, IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 569-583, 2006.

"A nonlinear optimization algorithm for WindSat wind vector retrievals," M.H. Bettenhausen, IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 597-610, 2006. (View as PDF)

"Polarimetric emission model of the sea at microwave frequencies and comparison with measurements," K.M. St. Germain, Progress in Electromagnetic Research, vol. 37, pp 2-32, 2002. (View as PDF)

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