Daytime cloud overlap detection from AVHRR and VIIRS

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 762-778

  Pavolonis, Michael J ^a   Heidinger, Andrew K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CLOUD; CLOUD DROPLET; DETECTION METHOD; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 3042730551     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2099.1     Document Type: Article

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