Vaidation and homogenization of cloud properties retrievals for RMIB GERB/SEVIRI scene identification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4882, Issue , 2002, Pages 29-39

  Ipe, Alessandro ^a   Bertrand, Cédric ^c   Clerbaux, Nicolas ^c   Dewitte, Steven ^c   Gonzalez, Luis ^c   Nicula, Bogdan ^b  

^a ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cloud fraction; Cloud optical depth; Scene identification; Visible imager

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); IMAGE SENSORS;

SCENE IDENTIFICATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0043232824     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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