The determination of cloud altitudes using SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-214

  Kokhanovsky, A A ^a,b   Rozanov, V V ^a   Von Hoyningen Huene, W ^a   Bovensmann, H ^a   Burrows, J P ^a   Baltink, H Klein ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clouds; Environmental satellite (ENVISAT); Radiative transfer; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DATA ACQUISITION; OXYGEN; PHOTONS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TRACE ANALYSIS;

CLOUD-FREE PIXELS; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES (ENVISAT); PIXELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFERS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 3342996023     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.830123     Document Type: Article

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