Intercomparison of digital fast fourier transform and acoustooptical spectrometers for microwave radiometry of the atmosphere

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2233-2239

  Müller, Stefan C ^a   Murk, Axel ^b   Monstein, Christian ^c   Kämpfer, Niklaus ^b  

^a Meteotest   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Discrete Fourier transforms; Microwave radiometry; Microwave spectroscopy; Remote sensing; Terrestrial atmosphere

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; APPLIED PHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GAS; ATMOSPHERIC TRACES; EMITTED RADIATION; FREQUENCY AXIS; GROUND BASED; INTERCOMPARISON; LOWER COST; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL LINE; TERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERE; UNIVERSITY OF BERN; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

AIRCRAFT; BANDWIDTH; BLOCK CODES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROWAVES; OZONE; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SYSTEM STABILITY; WATER VAPOR;

DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORM; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; TRACE GAS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 67651163448     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2013695     Document Type: Article

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