An assessment of the near-field contamination and off-axis leakage effects on earthlimb background measurements from CIRRIS 1A

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 1754, Issue , 1992, Pages 156-168

  Wheeler, N B ^a   Smith, D ^a   Dean, D ^a   Gardiner, H ^a   Gibson, J ^a   Griffin, J ^a   Price, S ^a   Nadile, R ^a   Bates, L ^b   Bingham, G ^b   Johnson, K ^b   Guregian, J ^c   Benoit, R ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sensor Systems Group ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ROCKETS;

CONTAMINATION PROBLEM; CURRENT MODELS; DATA QUALITY; LEAKAGE EFFECTS; LIMB MEASUREMENTS; LIMITED DATA; OFF-AXIS SOURCES; ROCKET LAUNCH;

CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0004785585     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.140728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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