Calibration and validation of DMSP SSMIS lower atmospheric sounding channels

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 946-961

  Wessel, John ^b   Farley, Robert W ^b   Fote, Alfred ^b   Hong, Ye ^b   Poe, Gene A ^a,c   Swadley, Steven D ^a,c,d   Thomas, Bruce ^b   Boucher, Donald J ^b  

^a IEEE

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d METOC Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Laser radar; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Satellite antennas; Satellites

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOSONDES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SATELLITE ANTENNAS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 41549102606     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.917132     Document Type: Article

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