A high-resolution full-earth disk model for evaluating synthetic aperture passive microwave observations from GEO

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3731-3741

  Lim, Boon H ^a   Ruf, Christopher S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture imaging

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE PROCESSING; ORBITS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE; DISK MODEL; GEOSTATIONARY EARTH ORBITS; GEOSTATIONARY SYNTHETIC THINNED APERTURE RADIOMETERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGES PROCESSING; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PERFORMANCE; REMOTE-SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EOS; GOES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOMETER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 70350654365     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2031172     Document Type: Article

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