A Methodology to Determine Radio-Frequency Interference in AMSR2 Observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5148-5159

  De Nijs, Anne H A ^a   Parinussa, Robert M ^a,b   De Jeu, Richard A M ^a,c   Schellekens, Jaap ^a,d   Holmes, Thomas R H ^e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Transmissivity B V   (Netherlands)

^d DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2); quality control methods; radio frequency interference (RFI); RFI detection

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DECISION TREES; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVES; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIO WAVES; RADIOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MICROWAVE SATELLITE SENSORS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCE METHODS;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EUROPE; INDIA; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84933504013     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2417653     Document Type: Article

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