Improved geolocation and earth incidence angle information for a fundamental climate data record of the SSM/I sensors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1504-1513

  Berg, Wesley ^a   Sapiano, Mathew R P ^b   Horsman, Jennifer ^c   Kummerow, Christian ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; geolocation; microwave radiometry; satellites

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CLIMATE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; GEOLOCATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LONG TERM DATA RECORD; MEAN ERRORS; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEA ICE EXTENT; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVES; TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER; VIEW ANGLES;

CALIBRATION; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; GEOPHYSICS; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PIXEL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; SPACECRAFT; SSM-I; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84874636777     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2199761     Document Type: Article

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