Aquarius L-Band Microwave Radiometer: 3 Years of Radiometric Performance and Systematic Effects

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5416-5423

  Piepmeier, Jeffrey R ^a   Hong, Liang ^a   Pellerano, Fernando A ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; microwave radiometer

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE WATERS;

ANTENNA TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION ALGORITHM; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; ORBITAL VARIATIONS; RADIOMETRIC PERFORMANCE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; TEMPERATURE STABILITY; THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOMETER; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

EID: 84931082001     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2435493     Document Type: Article

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