附註:Includes bibliographical references.
Machine derived contents note: Contributors VII -- Acknowledgements X -- CHAPTER 1: MODELS AND INVERSION METHODS FOR REMOTE SENSING 1 -- Atmospheric Backscatter and Lidars 3 -- G.P. Gobbi and F. Barnaba -- Precipitation Modeling for Inversion Purposes 19 -- P. Bauer -- Profile Retrieval Estimation Techniques 35 -- E.R. Westwater -- Bayesian Techniques in Remote Sensing 49 -- N. Pierdicca -- CHAPTER 2: ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING BY MICROWAVE AND VISIBLE-INFRARED SENSORS 65 -- Atmospheric Temperature Analysis using Microwave Radiometry 67 -- S. English -- Microwave Limb Sounding 79 -- S. Buehler -- Retrieval of Integrated Water Vapour and Cloud Liquid Water Contents 89 -- L. Eymard -- Precipitation Retrieval from Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers and -- Com bined Sensors 107 -- F.S. Marzano, A. Mugnai and J.F. Turk -- Clouds and Rainfall by Visible-Infrared Radiometry 127 -- V. Levizzani -- Tropospheric Aerosols by Passive Radiometry 145 -- G.L. Liberti and F. Cheury -- CHAPTER 3: OCEAN REMOTE SENSING BY MICROWAVE AND VISIBLE-INFRARED SENSORS 163 -- Sea Modeling by Microwave Altimetry 165 -- S. Pierini -- Sea Scatterom etry 183 -- M. Migliaccio -- Sea Surface Characterization by Combined Data 201 -- L. Santoleri, B.B. Nardelli and V. Banzon -- CHAPTER 4: DATA ASSIMILATION AND REMOTE SENSING PROGRAMS 215 -- Mesoscale Modeling and Methods Applications 217 -- R. Ferretti -- COST Action 712: Microwave Radiometry 231 -- C. Matzler.