Fast and accurate radiative transfer in the microwave with optimum spectral sampling

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1909-1917

  Lipton, Alan E ^a   Moncet, Jean Luc ^a   Boukabara, Sid Ahmed ^b   Uymin, Gennady ^a   Quinn, Katherine J ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation in absorbing media; Radiative transfer modeling; Terrestrial atmosphere

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; ANALYTICAL JACOBIANS; CENTER FREQUENCY; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION IN ABSORBING MEDIA; EXECUTION SPEED; FORWARD MODELS; LOOK UP TABLE; MICROWAVE SOUNDER; OPTIMAL POINTS; OPTIMAL SPECTRAL SAMPLINGS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; REFERENCE LINES; RMS ERRORS; SENSOR CHANNELS; SINGLE POINT; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SPECTRAL SAMPLING; TERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERE; TRAINING ALGORITHMS; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; MICROWAVES; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SENSORS; WINDOWS;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SAMPLING; SENSOR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651160362     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2010933     Document Type: Article

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