Aqua: An earth-observing satellite mission to examine water and other climate variables

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 173-183

  Parkinson, Claire L ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua; Earth Observing System (EOS); Remote sensing; Satellites; Water cycle

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; CLIMATE CONTROL; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; WATER; BIOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAUNCHING; NASA;

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS (EOS); AQUA DATA; CRYOSPHERE; DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTERS (DAAC); EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS);

SPACECRAFT; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 0038395937     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808319     Document Type: Review

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