Evaluation of Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) environmental data records

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1006-1016

  Sun, Ninghai ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^b  

^a I M Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental data records (EDRs); Microwave antennas; Microwave imaging; Retrieval; Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS); Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM I)

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN; SATELLITES;

IMAGING CHANNELS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER (SSMIS); SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER (SSM/I); SURFACE PARAMETERS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 41549149722     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.917368     Document Type: Article

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