Prelaunch calibrations of the clouds and the earth's radiant energy system (CERES) tropical rainfall measuring mission and earth observing system morning (EOS-AMI) spacecraft thermistor bolometer sensors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1173-1185

  Lee III, Robert B ^a   Barkstrom, Bruce R ^b   Bitting, Herbert C ^c   Crommelynck, Dominique A H ^d   Paden, Jack ^e   Pandey, Dhirendra K ^a   Priestley, Kory J ^b   Louis Smith, G ^c   Thomas, Susan ^d   Lee Thornhill, K ^a   Wilson, Robert S ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Climate; Longwave; Radiometry; Shortwave

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BOLOMETERS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; THERMISTORS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032117671     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.701024     Document Type: Article

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