Atmospheric correction of AMSR-E brightness temperatures for dry snow cover mapping

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 320-324

  Tedesco, Marco ^a,b   Wang, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction; Microwave; Remote sensing; Snow

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MAPPING; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; SURFACE EMISSIVITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33746638028     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.871744     Document Type: Article

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