Approximations of the planck function for models and measurements into the submillimeter range

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 433-437

  Lipton, Alan E ^a   Moncet, Jean Luc ^a   Uymin, Gennady ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ERRORS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION; LINEAR COEFFICIENTS; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MODEL APPLICATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL TEMPERATURE; PLANCK FUNCTION; SECOND-ORDER EXPANSION; SUBMILLIMETER RANGE;

ERROR COMPENSATION; LUMINANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67651180565     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2016120     Document Type: Article

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