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Microwave
Atmospheric Transmittance at Microwave Wavelengths (Petty, G., 1997. Retrieval of Atmospheric Parameters, presentation notes at American Meteorological Society Short Course on Passive Microwave Satellite Radiometry.)
SSM/I
SSM/I Scan Geometry (Hollinger, J. R. Lo, G. Poe, R. Savage, J. Peirce, 1987. "Special Sensor Microwave/Imager User's Guide", Naval Research Laboratory, p. 17.)
SSM/I Instrument (Poe, G., 1997. Review of Satellites Historical Perspective, presentation notes at American Meteorological Society Short Course on Passive Microwave Satellite Radiometry.)
SSM/I Global Coverage (I've actually seen this in a lot of different places, I'm sure what the original is, but I pulled it from Grody, N., 1997. Remote Sensing from Satellites Using Microwave Radiometry, presentation notes at American Meteorological Society Short Course on Passive Microwave Satellite Radiometry.)
Near Real-Time Ice and Snow Extent (NISE) Product, Feb 14, 2001, daily product derived from SSM/I brightness temperatures, sea ice concentrations in oceans and snow extent on land. Left side of each image is derived snow & ice, right side is age of latest swath data used. (NSIDC, 2001)
"Zoomed In" Daily Western U.S. Snow Depth, Feb 13, 2001, derived from SSM/I (Chang algorithm, modified for SSM/I frequencies), (I think resolution of overlays with U.S. State boundaries and hydrological basin boundares is ~2km--perhaps images like this are the reason why people think an SSM/I "pixel" is "25-km on a side"??) U.S. states of Colorado and Wyoming are at roughly the center of the image. (NSIDC, 2001)
