Information content in the oxygen A-band for the retrieval of macrophysical cloud parameters

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3246-3255

  Schuessler, Olena ^a   Loyola Rodriguez, Diego Guillermo ^a   Doicu, Adrian ^a   Spurr, Robert ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b RT Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Information content of hyperspectral measurements; oxygen A band; retrieval of macrophysical cloud parameters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; GEOLOGY;

CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUD PARAMETERS; GEOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS; HYPERSPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; OXYGEN A-BAND; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; SHANNON INFORMATION CONTENTS;

OXYGEN;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; DATA SET; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; OXYGEN; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE SENSOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896317017     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2271986     Document Type: Article

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