Simulation of spaceborne microwave radiometer measurements of snow cover using in situ data and brightness temperature modeling

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1031-1044

  Kontu, Anna ^a   Pulliainen, Jouni ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Snow

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DATA SETS; EFFECTIVE GRAIN SIZE; EMISSION MODEL; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; FINNISH; FORESTED AREA; GRAIN SIZE; HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; IN-SITU; IN-SITU DATA; INPUT DATAS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RMS ERRORS; SIMULATION ERROR; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW MODELS; SPACE-BORNE; THREE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AMSR-E; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; EOS; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; GRAIN SIZE; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; TIME SERIES;

FINLAND; HELSINKI; VARSINAIS-SUOMI;

EID: 77953872088     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2030499     Document Type: Article

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