Effect of emission from the moon on remote sensing of sea surface salinity: An example with the aquarius radiometer

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 239-243

  Dinnat, Emmanuel Philippe ^a   Abraham, Saji ^b   Le Vine, David M ^b   De Matthaeis, Paolo ^a   Jacob, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; Ocean salinity; Radiation from Moon

Indexed keywords

AQUARIUS; EARTH'S SURFACES; MAIN BEAMS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; OCEAN SALINITY; OCEAN SURFACES; RADIOMETER ANTENNAS; RADIOMETRIC ACCURACIES; SEA SURFACE SALINITIES; THERMAL EMISSIONS;

ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SPACE OPTICS;

MOON;

EID: 65049088437     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2008822     Document Type: Article

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