A physics-based statistical algorithm for retrieving land surface temperature from AMSR-E passive microwave data

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1115-1120

  Mao, KeBiao ^a,b,c   Shi, JianCheng ^b   Li, ZhaoLiang ^d   Qin, ZhiHao ^a,e   Li, ManChun ^d   Xu, Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AIEM; AMSR E; Brightness temperature; LST; MODIS

Indexed keywords

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE;

GEOPHYSICS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; EOS; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 34447319662     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-2053-x     Document Type: Article

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