Hyperspectral microwave atmospheric sounding

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 128-142

  Blackwell, William J ^a   Bickmeier, Laura J ^a   Leslie, R Vincent ^a   Pieper, Michael L ^a   Samra, Jenna E ^a   Surussavadee, Chinnawat ^a,b   Upham, Carolyn A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU); Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS); data assimilation; geostationary; Geostationary Millimeter wave Array Spectrometer (GeoMAS); Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite; humidity; hyperspectral; Hyperspectral Microwave Array Spectrometer (HyMAS); infrared; microwave; millimeter wave; moisture; National Polar orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS); neural network (NN); precipitation; retrieval; sounding; temperature; water vapor

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOSTATIONARY; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; HUMIDITY; HYPERSPECTRAL; INFRARED; NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM; NEURAL NETWORK (NN); PRECIPITATION; RETRIEVAL; SOUNDING;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; DATA PROCESSING; FREQUENCY BANDS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MULTIPLEXING; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOUNDING APPARATUS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER SATELLITES;

MICROWAVES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATABASE; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REMOTE SENSING; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 78650860666     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2052260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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