Global change observation mission (GCOM) for monitoring carbon, water cycles, and climate change

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 717-734

  Imaoka, Keiji ^a   Kachi, Misako ^a   Fujii, Hideyuki ^a   Murakami, Hiroshi ^a   Hori, Masahiro ^a   Ono, Akiko ^a   Igarashi, Tamotsu ^a   Nakagawa, Keizo ^a   Oki, Taikan ^a,b   Honda, Yoshiaki ^a,c   Shimoda, Haruhisa ^a,d  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Climate monitoring; Radiation budget; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Water cycle

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH;

ADVANCED EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITE-II; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; CARBON CYCLES; CLIMATE MONITORING; GLOBAL CHANGE OBSERVATION MISSIONS; JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY; RADIATION BUDGET; WATER CYCLE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77952238677     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2036869     Document Type: Article

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