Cross-scan asymmetry of AMSU-a window channels: Characterization, correction, and verification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1514-1530

  Yang, Wenze ^a   Meng, Huan ^b   Ferraro, Ralph R ^b   Moradi, Isaac ^a   Devaraj, Chabitha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A (AMSU A); calibration; microwave radiometry; passive microwave remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE PROFILES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; CORRECTION APPROACHES; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; EUMETSAT; GEOLOCATIONS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; METOP-A; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; PRODUCT GENERATION; TEMPERATURE DATA; TWO-POINT; VIEW ANGLES; WATER CYCLE;

CALIBRATION; POLARIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

SOUNDING APPARATUS;

AMSU; ASYMMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CORRECTION; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NOAA SATELLITE; POLARIZATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 84874644712     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2211884     Document Type: Article

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