Night-time cloud cover estimation

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2193-2205

  Sospedra, F ^a   Caselles, Vicente ^a   Valor, E ^a   Di Bella, C ^b   Coll, C ^a   Rubio, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; WAVE EFFECTS; ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); CLOUDS;

RADIATIVE EQUATIONS; WAVE RADIATION TRANSFER PROCESSES; GROUND DATA; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; THERMAL DATA; THERMAL INFRARED DATA;

CLOUDS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

AVHRR; CLOUD COVER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 2942554876     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160310001618752     Document Type: Article

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