Improvements in the Split-Window Technique for Land Surface Temperature Determination

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 243-253

  Sobrino, Jose A ^a   Li, Zhao Liang ^a   Stoll, Marc P ^a   Becker, Feancois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER; BLACK BODY RADIATOR; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL EMISSIVITIES; SPLIT-WINDOW TECHNIQUE; THERMAL CHANNELS;

TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0028402557     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.295038     Document Type: Article

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