Calibration of windSat polarimetric channels with a vicarious cold reference

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 470-475

  Hu, Ying ^a   Brown, Shannon T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH ANGLES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; WINDSAT;

AIRCRAFT; CALIBRATION; RADIOMETERS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 33344462326     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.855996     Document Type: Article

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