Methodology and information content of the NOAA NESDIS operational channel selection for the cross-track infrared sounder (CrIS)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3207-3216

  Gambacorta, Antonia ^a   Barnet, Christopher D ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Information content; spectral channel selection; variance explained

Indexed keywords

CROSS-TRACK INFRARED SOUNDER; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; INFORMATION CONTENT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; SPECTRAL CHANNELS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; VARIANCE EXPLAINED;

INFORMATION SERVICES; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; INFRARED IMAGERY; INSTRUMENTATION; REAL TIME; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878117096     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2220369     Document Type: Article

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