Pan-arctic land surface temperature from MODIS and AATSR: Product development and intercomparison

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3833-3856

  Soliman, Aiman ^a   Duguay, Claude ^a   Saunders, William ^a   Hachem, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AATSR; Arctic; Atmospheric reanalysis; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Passive microwave

Indexed keywords

AATSR; ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODIS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 84872359903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4123833     Document Type: Article

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