NDLI: Error Sources in Remote Sensing of Microwave Land Surface Emissivity

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hu Yang Fuzhong Weng
Copyright Year	1980
Abstract	The retrieval of land surface emissivity from satellite passive microwave measurements often requires the knowledge of various radiative components (e.g., atmospheric upwelling and downwelling radiation) contributed to the measurements. Under a cloud-free condition, atmospheric and surface radiative components can be derived from atmospheric temperature and water vapor, and surface temperature data. Thus, the quality of these auxiliary data sets directly affects the emissivity accuracy. From an emission-based radiative transfer equation, a set of relationships is derived to study the sensitivity of surface emissivity to the errors of brightness temperature, atmospheric transmittance, and surface temperature. As an example, the uncertainties in the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System emissivity at 23 and 89 GHz may be much larger than the uncertainties of emissivity at lower frequencies due to the higher uncertainties in computing the water vapor absorption. The error in the land surface temperature is a main source of error in emissivity at the frequencies less than 19 GHz.
Sponsorship	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society IEEE URSI
Starting Page	3437
Ending Page	3442
Page Count	6
File Size	217919
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01962892
Volume Number	49
Issue Number	9
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-09-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Land surface Atmospheric measurements Ocean temperature Atmospheric modeling Temperature measurement Sea surface Satellites surface emissivity Microwave radiometer
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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