Known and unknown unknowns: Uncertainty estimation in satellite remote sensing

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4699-4718

  Povey, A C ^a   Grainger, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA INTERPRETATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORWARD MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR;

EID: 84947256926     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-4699-2015     Document Type: Article

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