Npoess precipitation retrievals using the atms passive microwave spectrometer

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 570-573

  Surussavadee, Chinnawat ^a,b   Staelin, David H ^b  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMSU; ATMS; microwave radiometry; NPOESS; precipitation retrieval

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; GEOLOGY; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; STORMS;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDERS; AMSU; ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; NPOESS; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

EID: 67649794958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4780156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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