Relative information content of the advanced technology microwave sounder and the combination of the advanced microwave sounding unit and the microwave humidity sounder

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2224-2227

  Kleespies, Thomas J ^a  

^a Data   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation in absorbing media; Geophysical inverse problems; Information retrieval; Jacobian matrices; Maximum likelihood estimation; Microwave measurements; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Satellite applications

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INVERSE PROBLEMS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; WATER CONTENT;

GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE HUMIDITY SOUNDERS; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS;

MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

EID: 34347209839     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.898088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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