Cloud remote sensing from space in the era of the A-Train

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Stephens, Graeme L ^a   Vane, Deborah G ^b  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Precipitation; Remote sensing; Spaceborne radar

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; NASA; ORBITS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SMALL SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

CLOUD REMOTE SENSING; CLOUDSAT; CONSTELLATION OF SATELLITES; EOS AQUA; LASER SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING APPROACHES; UNIFIED APPROACH;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 52649180070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2709703     Document Type: Article

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