A calibration scheme for microwave radiometers using tipping curves and kalman filtering

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4201-4209

  Schneebeli, Marc ^a   Mätzler, Christian ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calibration; Ground based; Microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC OPACITY; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CALIBRATION ACCURACY; CALIBRATION ERROR; CALIBRATION METHOD; CALIBRATION QUALITY; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CRITICAL TASKS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GROUND BASED; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTERNAL CALIBRATION; KALMAN-FILTERING; KEY ISSUES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TIPPING ANGLE; WELL-ESTABLISHED TECHNIQUES;

CONTROL THEORY; IMAGE SENSORS; KALMAN FILTERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; OPACITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SIMULATORS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; KALMAN FILTER; RADIOMETER;

EID: 70549096082     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2023784     Document Type: Article

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