Accuracy of Ground-Based Microwave Radiometer and Balloon-Borne Measurements During the WVIOP2000 Field Experiment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 11 PART I, 2003, Pages 2605-2615

  Cimini, Domenico ^a   Westwater, Ed R ^b   Han, Yons ^c   Keihm, Stephen J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Natl Oceanic/Atmosph Admin   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Radiometric accuracy; Radiometric calibration; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CALIBRATION; CURVE FITTING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MICROWAVES; RADIO BALLOONS;

NOISE DIODE CALIBRATION; WATER VAPORS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0344877363     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.815673     Document Type: Article

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