Long-term calibration and accuracy assessment of the fengyun-3 microwave temperature sounder radiance measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4854-4859

  You, Ran ^a   Gu, Songyan ^a   Guo, Yang ^a   Wu, Xuebao ^a   Yang, Hu ^a   Chen, Wenxin ^b  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF SPACECRAFT SYSTEM ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Assessment; calibration; FengYun 3 (FY 3); long term; Microwave Temperature Sounder (MWTS)

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A; ASSESSMENT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CALIBRATION PROCESS; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; CHANNEL GAINS; CROSS-TRACK SCANNING; FENGYUN-3 (FY-3); FOUR-CHANNEL; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; LONG-TERM; LONG-TERM TREND; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MICROWAVE TEMPERATURE; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; SPACE MEASUREMENTS;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; COLD REGION; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TELEMETRY;

CHINA;

EID: 84870446556     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2200257     Document Type: Article

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