Satellite-based columnar water vapor retrieval with the multi-spectral thermal imager (MTI)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 12 PART I, 2003, Pages 2767-2770

  Chylek, Petr ^a,b   Borel, Christoph C ^a   Clodius, William ^a   Pope, Paul A ^a   Rodger, Andrew P ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Remote sensing; Satellites; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; ROBOTICS; SOLAR RADIATION; VAPORS;

MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MULTI-SPECTRAL THERMAL IMAGER; SATELLITE-BASED COLUMNAR WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL;

MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS;

EID: 0442311262     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.814914     Document Type: Article

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