Reduction of Noise in AVHRR Channel 3 Data with Minimum Distortion

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 315-328

  Simpson, James J ^a   Yhann, Stephan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

ALTERNATIVE FILTERING METHODS; AVHRR CHANNEL 3 DATA NOISE REDUCTION; CLOUD SCREENING ALGORITHMS; MULTICHANNEL SEA SURFACE TEMMPERATURE (MCSST) ESTIMATES; WIENER FILTERING MODEL;

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EID: 0028403684     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.295047     Document Type: Article

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