Microwave radiometry data are used to construct brightness temperatures: an indication of the intensity of electromagnetic
energy at a particular wavelength that filters up through the atmosphere and reaches the satellite's sensor.
One can also refer to monochromatic (spectral) fluxes and intensities, which is the flux or intensity
at a
particular frequency ν (or
wavelength λ, or photon
energy E) per unit of the spectrum (per interval of ν or λ or E, or even per unit log (ν), etc.).