Satellite-based precipitation retrieval using neural networks, principal component analysis, and image sharpening

Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 233-264

  Chen, Frederick W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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