Prelaunch algorithm and data format for the level 1 calibration products for the EOS-AMI moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1142-1151

  Guenther, B ^a   Godden, Gerald D ^b   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^c   Knight, Edward J ^d   Qiu, Shi Yue ^e   Montgomery, Harry ^f   Hopkins, M M ^a   Khayat, Mohammad G ^a   Hao, Zhidong ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Physics Applications Inc   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d Res and Data Systems Corporation   (United States)

^e Computation Physics Applications Inc ^*  (United States)

^f GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032115206     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.701021     Document Type: Article

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