A Cumulative Distribution Function Method for Normalizing Variable-Angle Microwave Observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3906-3916

  Ye, Nan ^a   Walker, Jeffrey P ^a   Rüdiger, Christoph ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active and passive microwave remote sensing; incidence angle normalization

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; HETEROGENEOUS LAND SURFACES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; RADAR; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 85027929140     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2387574     Document Type: Article

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