Global land surface emissivity retrieved from satellite ultraspectral IR measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1277-1290

  Zhou, Daniel K ^a   Larar, Allen M ^a   Liu, Xu ^a   Smith, William L ^b,c   Strow, L Larrabee ^d   Yang, Ping ^e   Schlüssel, Peter ^f   Calbet, Xavier ^f  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infrared (IR) ultraspectral sounder; inversion; remote sensing; surface emissivity; temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; CLOUD PARAMETER RETRIEVAL; CRITICAL INFORMATION; EMISSIVITY SPECTRA; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL LAND SURFACE; HYPERSPECTRAL; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; INVERSION; INVERSION SCHEME; IR MEASUREMENTS; KALAHARI; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LONG TERM MONITORING; NADIR OBSERVATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SEASONAL PRODUCT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPACE-BORNE; SPECTRAL EMISSIVITY; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE; ULTRASPECTRAL; ULTRASPECTRAL SOUNDER; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; INFRARED IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

TEMPERATURE;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; EMISSIVITY; INFRARED RADIATION; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE INVERSION;

KALAHARI DESERT; NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA;

EID: 79953210715     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2051036     Document Type: Article

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