Microwave radiometrie technique to retrieve vapor, liquid and ice, part i - development of a Neural Network-Based Inversion Method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 224-236

  Li, Li ^a   Vivekanandan, J ^a   Chan, C H ^a   Tsang, Leung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

INVERSION METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0031095564     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.563260     Document Type: Article

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