Analysis of the POLDER Polarization Measurements Performed Over Cloud Covers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 78-88

  Goloub, Phillippe ^a   Deuzé, Jean Luc ^a   Herman, Maurice ^a   Fouquart, Yves ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIDIRECTIONAL POLARIZATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; HOMOGENEOUS CLOUD FIELDS; POLDER INSTRUMENT; WIDE FIELD OF VIEW BIDIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0028112836     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.285191     Document Type: Article

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