Land-Surface Temperature Measurement from Space: Physical Principles and Inverse Modeling

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 268-278

  Wan, Zhengming ^a   Dozier, Jeff ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; INVERSE MODELING; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURES; OCEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0024663021     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.17668     Document Type: Note

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