Mapping the atmospheric water vapor by integrating microwave radiometer and GPS measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1657-1665

  Basili, Patrizia ^a   Bonafoni, Stefania ^a   Mattioli, Vinia ^a   Ciotti, Piero ^b   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Global positioning system (GPS); Kriging interpolation; Microwave radiometry; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY TRANSFER; FORECASTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; INTERPOLATION; MAPS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATMOSPHERE; KRIGING INTERPOLATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; WATER VAPORS;

MAPPING;

EID: 4344632227     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.830943     Document Type: Article

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