Operational calibration of geostationary operational environmental satellite-8 and -9 imagers and sounders

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 27, 1997, Pages 6895-6904

  Weinreb, Michael ^a   Jamieson, Michael ^b   Fulton, Nancy ^b   Chen, Yen ^b   Johnson, Joy Xie ^b   Bremer, James ^c   Smith, Carl ^b   Baucom, Jeanette ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Integral Systems Inc   (United States)

^c Swales and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Infrared radiation; Meteorological satellite radiometers; Visible radiation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GOES; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE ORBIT;

EID: 0031580561     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006895     Document Type: Article

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