Karmakar P. Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing. Methods and Applications

Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2014. - 220 p.
The basic components of microwave remote sensing are the sensor–scene interaction, sensor design, and its application in geosciences. This book is mainly for physicists and engineers working in the area of microwave sensing of the atmosphere; it is not for ultimate users like geologists and hydrologists. An attempt has been made to establish a link between the microwave-sensor response and ambient atmospheric thermodynamic parameters, like water vapor content, temperature, nonprecipitable cloud-liquid-water content, and rain in the tropical, temperate, and polar regions. It should be mentioned here that of several types of sensors, such as radar, radiometer, LIDAR, etc., we have described the ground-based radiometric application in remote sensing of the atmosphere, which in a sense may be called microwave radiometry.