The impact of subsampling on MODIS level-3 statistics of cloud optical thickness and effective radius

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 366-373

  Oreopoulos, Lazaros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua; Clouds; Effective radius; Inhomogeneous media; Optical thickness; Remote sensing; Sampling methods; Satellite applications; Terra

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTORS; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TESTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; WEATHER SATELLITES;

AQUA; EFFECTIVE RADIUS; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY (MODIS); OPTICAL THICKNESS; SAMPLING METHODS; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; TERRA;

CLOUDS;

EID: 13144268612     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.841247     Document Type: Article

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