Combined microwave radiometer and altimeter retrieval of wet path delay for the geosat follow-on

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 991-999

  Ruf, Christopher S ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETERS;

GEOSAT FOLLOW ON SATELLITE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PATH DELAY RETRIEVALS; WATER VAPOR RADIOMETER;

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030190335     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1996.508416     Document Type: Article

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