Three-dimensional humidity retrieval using a network of compact microwave radiometers to correct for variations in wet tropospheric path delay in spaceborne interferometric SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3281-3290

  Sahoo, Swaroop ^a   Reising, Steven C ^a   Padmanabhan, Sharmila ^b   Vivekanandan, Jothiram ^c   Iturbide Sanchez, Flavio ^d   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^e   Pichelli, Emanuela ^f   Cimini, Domenico ^g  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^g CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; humidity measurement; microwave radiometry; moisture; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTH'S SURFACE; EFFECT OF WATER; GROUND BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMIDITY MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASIS; INTERFEROMETRIC PRODUCTS; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; IONOSPHERIC TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; LONG TIME SERIES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PATH DELAY; PERMANENT SCATTERERS; PROPAGATION DELAYS; SATELLITE DATA; SIGNAL PATHS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; SPACE-BORNE; SPACEBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TECTONIC MOVEMENTS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY; INTERFEROMETRY; IONOSPHERE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MONITORING; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIR; SPATIAL VARIATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 80052327614     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2119400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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