Retrieval of land and sea brightness temperatures from mixed coastal pixels in passive microwave data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1844-1851

  Bellerby, Tim ^a,b   Taberner, Malcolm ^a   Wilmshurst, Andrea ^a   Beaumont, Mike ^a   Barrett, Eric ^a   Scott, John ^c   Durbin, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal zones; Mixed pixels; Passive microwave; Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM I)

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS (SSM/I);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032207601     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.729355     Document Type: Article

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