Global survey and statistics of radio-frequency interference in AMSR-E land observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 938-946

  Njoku, Eni G ^a   Ashcroft, Peter ^b   Chan, Tsz K ^a   Li, Li ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; GEOPHYSICS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; SCANNING;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETERS (AMSR); MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 18444398932     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.837507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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