A simple equation for determining sea surface emissivity in the 3-15 μm region

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1603-1619

  Niclos R ^a,b   Caselles, V ^b   Valor, E ^b   Coll, C ^b   Sanchez J M ^a,b  

^a FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

COMPLEX EQUATIONS; OBSERVATION ANGLE; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; SATELLITE SENSORS; SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

SURFACE WATERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; EMISSIVITY; ENVISAT-1; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; MODIS; NADIR; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 67650258214     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802541523     Document Type: Article

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