A Rotating Knife-beam Altimeter for Wide-swath Remote Sensing of Ocean Wind and Waves.docVIP

Sensors 2006, 6, 620-642 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2006 by MDPI /sensors Special Issue on “Satellite Altimetry: New Sensors and New Application” Edited by Ge Chen and Graham D. Quartly Full Research Paper A Rotating Knife-beam Altimeter for Wide-swath Remote Sensing of Ocean: Wind and Waves V. Yu. Karaev 1,*, M. B. Kanevsky 1, G. N. Balandina 1, E. M. Meshkov 1, P. Challenor 2, Meric Srokosz 2,* and C. Gommenginger 2 1 Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Scinces 46, Uljanov str., 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Tel. +7 8312 164928, E-mil: volody@hydro.appl.sci-nnov.ru 2 Nati