Land surface brightness temperature modeling using solar insolation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 491-498

  Stephen, Haroon ^a   Ahmad, Sajjad ^a   Piechota, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; Colorado river basin; Emissivity; Microwave imager; Solar insolation; Tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM)

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; SOLAR INSOLATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVES; MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TROPICS; WATERSHEDS;

TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMISSIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 73249118436     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2026893     Document Type: Article

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