Neural networks for the retrieval of water vapor and liquid water from radiometric data

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1373-1386

  Del Frate, Fabio ^a   Schiavon, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE; FITS AND TOLERANCES; LINEAR REGRESSION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; FAULT-TOLERANCE ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; LINEAR REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM; RETRIEVAL PROCEDURES; STRONG NONLINEARITY;

WATER VAPOR; RADIOMETRY;

FAULT TOLERANCE ANALYSIS; LASER CEILOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; NEURAL RETRIEVAL METHOD; PRUNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0032164599     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98rs02133     Document Type: Article

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