Galactic noise and passive microwave remote sensing from space at L-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 119-129

  Le Vine, David M ^a   Abraham, Saji ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Galactic background; Microwave radiometry; Ocean salinity; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COSMIC RAYS; GALAXIES; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; ORBITS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; GALACTIC NOISE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN SALINITY; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 1242286433     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817977     Document Type: Article

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