Brightness Temperature

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
BT
Pronunciation
/ˈbraɪtnəs ˈtɛmpərəʧər/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. Therefore, vegetation index and brightness temperature can be used to monitor drought regime.
  2. Research on Extreme Weather and Climate Events using MSU and AMSU Brightness Temperature(BT) Data
  3. The high brightness temperature of the pulsar radio emission implies that the underlying emission mechanism must be coherent.
  4. The results show that vegetation index could reflect a part of moisture information, and there is some relationship between brightness temperature and soil moisture.
  5. It is not always suitable to use Planck's law or Stefan-Boltzmann's law to describe the relation between brightness temperature and radiance for a wide band sensor.

Other meanings of BT