Atmospheric water vapor content over land surfaces derived from the AVHRR data: Application to the Iberian Peninsula

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 1425-1434

  Sobrino, José A ^a   Raissouni, Naoufal ^a   Simarro, Juan ^a   Nerry, Françoise ^a   Petitcolin, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; VAPORS; WATER;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032639676     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.763306     Document Type: Article

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