Testing post-launch calibration for the AVHRR sensor on world desert targets during 1985-1993

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-50

  Kogan, F N ^a   Sullivan, J T ^a   Ciren, Pu Bu ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; CALIBRATION; DESERT TARGET;

EID: 0029751612     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0273-1177(95)00444-J     Document Type: Article

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