Estimation of water vapor content in near-infrared bands around 1 μm from MODIS data by using RM-NN

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9542-9554

  Mao, K B ^a,b   Li, H T ^c   Hu, D Y ^d   Wang, J ^e   Huang, J X ^f   Li, Z L ^g   Zhou, Q B ^a   Tang, H J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS; STATISTICS; WATER CONTENT;

COMPARISON ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC LEARNING; ESTIMATION ERRORS; ESTIMATION RESULTS; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; NEAR-INFRARED BANDS; RADIANCE TRANSFER; SIMULATION DATA; STANDARD DEVIATION; WATER VAPOR CONTENTS;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77952080677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009542     Document Type: Article

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