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Ocean Remote Sensing Using GNSS-R

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This chapter introduces the essential oceanic application of the GNSS reflectometry, e.g., sea surface altimetry and surface roughness. Other potential areas of interest for oceanography and marine applications are the retrievals of dielectric properties of the surface (related to temperature and salinity) and ship detection. Although the ratio between the co-polar and the cross-polar components of the Fresnel reflection coefficients for sea water presents up to 10 % sensitivity to salinity conditions, the effects of the roughness need to be further modeled in the future.

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  1. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China People’s Republic

    Shuanggen Jin

  2. Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (ICE/IEEC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

    Estel Cardellach

  3. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, USA

    Feiqin Xie

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Jin, S., Cardellach, E., Xie, F. (2014). Ocean Remote Sensing Using GNSS-R. In: GNSS Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7482-7_9

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