On-orbit Microwave Blackbody Calibration Using Regions of Dense Vegetation

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 4497-4499

  Brown, Shannon ^a   Ruf, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Calibration; Microwave radiometer; SSM I

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FORESTRY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0242540429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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