Near-real time cloud retrievals from operational and research meteorological satellites

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7107, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Minnis, Patrick ^a   Nguyen, Louis ^a   Palikonda, Rabindra ^b   Heck, Patrick W ^c   Spangenberg, Douglas A ^b   Doelling, David R ^a   Ayers, J Kirk ^b   Smith Jr , William L ^a   Khaiyer, Mandana M ^b   Trepte, Qing Z ^b   Avey, Lance A ^b   Chang, Fu Lung ^d   Yost, Chris R ^b   Chee, Thad L ^b   Szedung, Sun Mack ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; FY 2C; Geostationary; GOES; Icing; Meteosat; MODIS; MTSAT; Nowcasting; Real time

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CALIBRATION; CLOUDS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL RADAR; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

FY-2C; GEOSTATIONARY; GOES; METEOSAT; MODIS; MTSAT; NOWCASTING; REAL TIME;

ATMOSPHERICS;

EID: 57749105274     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.800344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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