Postlaunch calibration of the NOAA-18 advanced microwave sounding unit-A

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1928-1937

  Mo, Tsan ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance microwave sounding unit A (AMSU A) measurements; Amazon rainforest brightness temperature; Instrument calibration; Microwave radiometers; Microwave remote sensing; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

ADVANCE MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A (AMSU-A) MEASUREMENTS; AMAZON RAINFOREST BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 34347217799     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.897451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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