Calibration of the NOAA AMSU-A radiometers with natural test sites

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3334-3342

  Mo, Tsan ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A (AMSU A) measurements; brightness temperatures over Antarctica; microwave radiometers; microwave remote sensing; ocean brightness temperatures; satellite data

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A (AMSU-A) MEASUREMENTS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; OCEAN BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE DATA;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE;

SOUNDING APPARATUS;

AMSU; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NADIR; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 80052313865     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2104417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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