Atmospheric water vapor retrieval from Landsat 8 thermal infrared images

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1723-1738

  Ren, Huazhong ^a   Du, Chen ^a   Liu, Rongyuan ^b   Qin, Qiming ^a   Yan, Guangjian ^b   Li, Zhao Liang ^c,d   Meng, Jinjie ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERONET; CALIBRATION; FIELD OF VIEW; LANDSAT; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84925628016     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022619     Document Type: Article

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