Note on the quality of the (A)ATSR land surface temperature record from 1991 to 2009

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4178-4192

  Kogler, Christian ^a   Pinnock, Simon ^a   Arino, Olivier ^a   Casadio, Stefano ^a   Corlett, Gary ^b   Prata, Fred ^c   Bras, Teresa ^a  

^a ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL WARMING; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVISAT-1; ERS-1; ERS-2; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855419778     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.645085     Document Type: Article

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