Assessment of Tilt Capability for Spaceborne Global Ocean Color Sensors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 866-877

  Gregg, Watson W ^a   Patt, Frederick S ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SUN;

COASTAL ZONE COLOR SCANNER (CZCS); SEA VIEWING WIDE FIELD OF VIEW SENSOR (SEAWIFS) MISSION; SPACEBORNE GLOBAL OCEAN COLOR SENSORS; TILT CAPABILITY; TRANSMITTED WATER LEAVING RADIANCE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0028466263     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.298014     Document Type: Article

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