Nonlocal independent pixel approximation: direct and inverse problems

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 192-205

  Marshak, Alexander ^a   Davis, Anthony ^a   Cahalan, Robert F ^a   Wiscombe, Warren ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOUDS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; SATELLITES;

CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; NONLOCAL INDEPENDENT PIXEL APPROXIMATION (NIPA);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031701880     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.655329     Document Type: Article

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