Precipitation retrieval from spaceborne microwave radiometers based on maximum a posteriori probability estimation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 831-846

  Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HYDROMETEORS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; MEAN VALUES; MICROPHYSICAL CLOUD MODEL; PLANE PARALLEL RADIATIVE TRANSFER SCHEME; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVAL; RAINFALL RATE; SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE; VARIANCES;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0030193743     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.508401     Document Type: Article

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