A maximum entropy approach to satellite quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE)

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4629-4639

  Tapiador, F J ^a,d   Kidd, C ^a   Levizzani, V ^b   Marzano, F S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RAIN; WEATHER SATELLITES;

HISTOGRAM MATCHING (HM); MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD (MEM); PASSIVE MICROWAVE (PMW) DATA; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE (SSM);

INFRARED IMAGING;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 8744285778     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160410001710000     Document Type: Article

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