A statistical framework for the sensitivity analysis of radiative transfer models

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4062-4074

  Morris, Robin D ^a,b   Kottas, Athanasios ^b   Taddy, Matthew ^c   Furfaro, Roberto ^d   Ganapol, Barry D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian process (GP); Main effects; Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Radiative transfer model (RTM); Sensitivity analysis; Sensitivity index

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN PROCESS; MAIN EFFECT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL (RTM); SENSITIVITY INDEX;

CHLOROPHYLL; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79956091964     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2002026     Document Type: Article

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