Contents

• Outline of Meteorological Observation by Satellites and its Applications
• Introduction to remote sensing
• Objective Cloud analysis
• Processing of Satellite Environmental and Marine Products
• Rainfall Estimation from Satellite Observations
• Microwave Remote Sensing
• Characteristics of Microwave Satellite Data and their Application to the Typhoon Analysis
• RGB image composites
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