Intercomparison of millimeter-wave radiative transfer models

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1882-1890

  Kim, Min Jeong ^a   Skofronick Jackson, Gail M ^b   Weinman, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta scaling; Eddington second order approximation; Millimeter wave; Monte Carlo method; Neumann iterative method; Radiative transfer model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

DELTA-SCALING; NEUMANN ITERATIVE METHODS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; SECOND-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 4744341256     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.833392     Document Type: Article

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