Operational detection of contrails from noaa-avhrr-data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1641-1660

  Mannstein, Hermann ^a   Meyer, Richard ^a   Wendling, Peter ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; JET ENGINES; SOLAR RADIATION; VAPORS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER; CONTRAIL;

RADIOMETERS;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CONTRAIL; DETECTION METHOD; NOAA SATELLITE;

EID: 0033586926     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311699212650     Document Type: Article

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