Ground-based multifrequency microwave radiometry for rainfall remote sensing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 742-759

  Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a,b   Fionda, Ermanno ^c   Ciotti, Piero ^a,b   Martellucci, Antonio ^c,d  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric remote sensing; Ground based microwave radiometry; Precipitation retrieval; Radiative transfer modeling

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036544260     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.1006317     Document Type: Article

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