Spectral downscaling of integrated water vapor fields from satellite infrared observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 415-428

  Montopoli, Mario ^a   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^b   Marzano, Frank S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Earth observations; remote sensing; satellite observations; statistical interpolation; water vapor

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CONVENTIONAL SENSORS; DOWN-SCALING; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INFRA-RED RADIOMETERS; INFRARED OBSERVATIONS; INTEGRATED PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPORS; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SECOND ORDERS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SCALE; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WATER VAPOR FIELDS; WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

WATER VAPOR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; INTERPOLATION; MERIS; MODIS; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER VAPOR; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84856336205     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2161996     Document Type: Article

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