Assessing the quality of SeaWinds rain measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1424-1432

  Draper, David W ^a,b   Long, David G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; SeaWinds, scatterometer; Simultaneous wind rain retrieval; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR SYSTEMS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SEAWATER EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SCATTEROMETER; SEAWINDS; SIMULTANEUOS RAIN/WIND RETRIEVAL; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM) MICROWAVE IMAGER (TMI);

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 4043178416     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.828194     Document Type: Article

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