A Preliminary Survey of Radio-Frequency Interference Over the U.S. in Aqua AMSR-E Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 380-390

  Li, Li ^a   Njoku, Eni G ^a   Im, Eastwood ^a   Chang, Paul S ^b   Germain, Karen St ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Natl Oceanic/Atmosph Admin   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR); Land remote sensing; Microwave radiometry; Radio frequency interference (RFI)

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY;

SANNING MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER (SMMR); SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE (SSM);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1442312085     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817195     Document Type: Review

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