Radar estimates of aboveground biomass in boreal forests of interior Alaska
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This communication describes a procedure to estimate thevertical profilesof stratospheric aerosols based on the visible data tobe obtained byADEOSIILAS. Our algorithms mainly consist of twoparts: the first process is baseline estimation for the observed trans-mittance spectrum, followed by the inversion process that derives ver-tical profilesof atmospheric extinction from ILAS transmittance data.Model calculations with anILAS simulator show that our treatmentprovides quick and accurate results within the expected domain of va-lidity.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing
دوره 32 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994