A Review of Ground-Based Remote Sensing of Temperature and Moisture by Passive Microwave Radiometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-24, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 340-352

  Askne, Jan I H ^a   Westwater, Ed R ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0001739714     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1986.289591     Document Type: Article

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