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Why is the ρστ absorption band called the ρστ absorption band?
Differential absorption in the near-infrared is used to retrieve total column water vapour from MODIS (Gao and Kaufman, 2003), OLCI (Preusker et al., 2021), and others. The idea is that reflected ...
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What is a breadboard (retrieval) algorithm in the context of geophysical satellite retrievals/remote sensing?
In a recent met-jobs job posting (different version here) for a researcher with a background in climatology/meteorology/hydrology or
environmental sciences, I saw the phrase breadboard retrieval ...
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What is the technical term for spatially aggregated measures?
Is there an adjective to describe data that has areal weight, like area, biomass, population, etc. — data that has to be aggregated by sum for example — vs. data that doesn't, such as landcover ...
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