Enhanced Air Force Geophysics Laboratory RADTRAN transmittance/brightness temperature computer code
Abstract
In this paper we describe recent enhancements to the RADTRAN algorithm including: (a) the capability to model polarized microwave surface emissivity for ocean, dry and moist soil, various types of vegetation, sea ice, and snow cover, (b) calculation of the scattering properties of precipitation, (c) treatment of multiple scattering by precipitation in the evaluation of background brightness temperature, and (d) the incorporation of simple statistical parameter retrieval methods.
- Publication:
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Propagation Engineering
- Pub Date:
- October 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.960877
- Bibcode:
- 1989SPIE.1115..243I
- Keywords:
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- Brightness Temperature;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Emissivity;
- Light Scattering;
- Microwave Sensors;
- Microwave Transmission;
- Algorithms;
- Ocean Surface;
- Precipitation;
- Retrieval;
- Sea Ice;
- Snow Cover;
- Soil Moisture;
- Vegetation;
- Instrumentation and Photography