Water vapor tomography with two microwave radiometers

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 419-423

  Steinke, Sandra ^a   Lohnert U ^a   Crewell, S ^a   Liu, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MEASUREMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEASUREMENT GEOMETRY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OPTIMAL ESTIMATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; STANDARD DEVIATION; TOMOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES; WATER VAPOR TOMOGRAPHIES;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84896396701     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2264354     Document Type: Article

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