The cloud phase discrimination from a satellite

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-106

  Kokhanovsky, A A ^a   Jourdan, O ^a   Burrows, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud remote sensing; Temperature; Thermodynamic phase

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

CLOUD REMOTE SENSING; CLOUD TEMPERATURE; SOLAR LIGHT; THERMODYNAMIC PHASE;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 31144463413     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.858487     Document Type: Article

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