Atmospheric corrections in the thermal infrared: global and water vapor dependent split-window algorithms - applications to atsr and avhrr data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 457-470

  Francois C ^a   Ottle C ^a  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEAT RADIATION; INFRARED IMAGING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SURFACES; VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; GLOBAL QUADRATIC METHOD; SPLIT WINDOW METHOD; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; WATER VAPOR DEPENDENT ALGORITHMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030110347     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.485123     Document Type: Article

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