Developments and Evaluation of Over-Land Rain Rate Algorithms for the SSM/I.

Abstract

Much work has been done in the past several years on rain-rate algorithms using the Special Sensor Microwave/Images (SSM/I) for over-water regions. However, many users of this sensor, including the Department of Defense (DOD), require rain/no-rain determinations and rain-rate estimates in over-land areas of the world not adequately covered by the present surface, upper-air, and radar observation network. Presented here is the development of three new over-land rain-rate algorithms and an evaluation of them against algorithms developed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Satellite Research Laboratory (NOAA SRL) and at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA GSFC).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA299736

Entities

People

  • Mark D. Conner

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Grids
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Meteorology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Remote Sensing
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surface Temperature
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects