Abstract
A description of the general principles involved in remote sensing is followed by a review of instruments designed to sense properties of the earth's atmosphere and surface from near-earth orbiting and geostationary satellites. These include instruments for measuring atmospheric temperature, clouds, winds, precipitation and composition (water vapour and trace constituents). Emphasis is on general principles, but a few instruments are described in detail as examples. A list of space-borne atmospheric remote-sensing instruments is included. Methods for data reduction are outside the scope of this review.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 531-578 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Journal | Reports on Progress in Physics |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - Apr 1991 |