Characterization of residual information for SeaWinds quality control

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2747-2759

  Portabella, Marcos ^a   Stoffelen, Ad ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Quality control; Rain; Scatterometer; SeaWinds

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; QUALITY CONTROL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SEA WINDS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036993997     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.807750     Document Type: Article

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