Optimal estimation of sea surface temperature from split-window observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2469-2484

  Merchant, C J ^a   Le Borgne, P ^b   Marsouin, A ^b   Roquet, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR); Retrieval theory; Sea surface temperature (SST)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; RETRIEVAL THEORY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AVHRR; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPLIT WINDOW; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 41249091757     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.011     Document Type: Article

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