On the effect of non-raining parameters in retrieval of surface rain rate using TRMM PR and TMI measurements

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 735-743

  Ramanujam, Srinivasa ^a   Radhakrishnan, Chandrasekar ^a   Subramani, Deepak ^a   Chakravarthy, Balaji ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Bayesian inference; microwave remote sensing; quickbeam; rainfall retrieval algorithm; TRMM satellite; WRF

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; QUICKBEAM; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; WRF;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFERENCE ENGINES; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAIN GAGES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE; WATER CONTENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD WATER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; TRMM; WATER CONTENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SORBUS AUCUPARIA;

EID: 84863508922     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2189557     Document Type: Article

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