The verisimilitude of the independent pixel approximation used in cloud remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 71-78

  Marshak, Alexander ^a   Davis, Anthony ^a   Wiscombe, Warren ^a   Titov, Georgii ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

CLOUD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATION FIELD; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATION;

EID: 0029473114     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00016-T     Document Type: Article

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