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Publications of Robert O. Knuteson

July 10, 2011

Reference online: http://library.ssec.wisc.edu/publications/resultOnly.php?authorText=Knuteson,%20Robert%20O.&numOfRecs=25&currPage=1. Sample Entries of the 38 records online at the University of Wisconsin Library: 1. Seemann, Suzanne W.; Borbas, Eva E.; Knuteson, Robert O.; Stephenson, Gordon R. and Huang, Hung-Lung. Development of a global infrared land surface emissivity database for application to clear sky sounding retrievals from multispectral satellite radiance measurements. Reprint # [...]

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Emissivity of Human Skin in the Waveband between 2 & 6 micrometers

December 22, 2010

From a Nature Article of the same title: By DAVID J. WATMOUGH & R. OLIVER, Department of Radiation Physics, Churchill Hospital, Oxford. Citation: Nature 219, 622 – 624 (10 August 1968); doi:10.1038 Abstract: The emissivity of human skin epsilon(lambda) in the range 2micro to 6micro has recently assumed considerable importance because of the increasing medical [...]

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Determination of the Infrared Emissivity with Multi-spectral Thermal Infrared Data from Space

November 4, 2010

A 2004 Amercian Geophysical Union Conference Presentation by: Schmugge, T (schmugge@hydrolab.arsusda.gov) , USDA/ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Bldg. 007 – BARC West, Beltsville, MD 20705 United States Ogawa, K (k-ogawa@dsg.hitachi.co.jp) , Hitachi Ltd., 4-6 Kanda-Surugadai Chiyoda- Ku,, Tokyo, 101-8010 Japan Ogawa, K (k-ogawa@dsg.hitachi.co.jp) , Faculty of Engineering,University of Tokyo, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033 [...]

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IR contrast of crude-oil-covered water

August 5, 2010

“Infrared contrast of crude-oil-covered water surfaces“, by Wei-Chuan Shih and A. Ballard Andrews, Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 24, pp. 3019-3021 (2008) Abstract (Modified format for easier online viewing)

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Emissivity of thin oil films

August 5, 2010

Unpolarized emissivity of thin oil films over anisotropic Gaussian seas in infrared window regions,” Appl. Opt. 49, 2116-2131 (2010), by Nicolas Pinel, Christophe Bourlier, and Irina Sergievskaya is online at: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-49-11-2116. Abstract (Modified format for easier online viewing)

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Thermal infrared remote sensing of crude oil slicks

August 5, 2010

In: Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 45, Issue 2, August 1993, Pages 225-231. by John W. Salisbury a, Dana M. D’Aria a and Floyd F. Sabins Jr.b aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore U.S.A. bChevron Oil Field Research Company, La Habra, California U.S.A. (Abstract Online) With all the interest on the [...]

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