Error sources in remote sensing of microwave land surface emissivity

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3437-3442

  Yang, Hu ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^b  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometer; surface emissivity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMITTANCE; ATMOSPHERIC UPWELLING; AUXILIARY DATA; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DOWN-WELLING RADIATION; ERROR SOURCES; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE SCANNING; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WATER-VAPOR ABSORPTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ABSORPTION; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; AMSR-E; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; EMISSIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRANSMITTANCE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 80052332861     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2125794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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