A comparison of MODIS, NCEP, and TMI sea surface temperature datasets

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 270-274

  Chan, Pui King ^a   Gao, Bo Cai ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrus clouds; MODIS; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; DATASETS; MODIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 27744515748     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.846838     Document Type: Article

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