A comparison of near-concurrent measurements from the SSMIS and CoSMIR for some selected channels over the frequency range of 50-183 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 923-933

  Wang, James R ^a,b   Racette, Paul E ^a,b   Piepmeier, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Microwave; Radiometer; Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS)

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; LIQUID CLOUDS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER (SSMIS);

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 41549149723     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.904038     Document Type: Article

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