Diurnal Variation of the AMSU-A Brightness Temperatures Over the Amazon Rainforest

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 958-969

  Mo, Tsan ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU A) measurements; Amazon rainforest brightness temperature; microwave radiometers; microwave remote sensing; satellite data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008006520     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.890417     Document Type: Article

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