Cloud bottom altitude determination from a satellite

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 280-283

  Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^a   Rozanov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud remote sensing; O2 A band spectrometry; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OXYGEN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

CLOUD REMOTE SENSING; O2 A-BAND SPECTROMETRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 27744536750     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.846837     Document Type: Article

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