An instrumental source for the dark pixel clusters in the polar VIS and UVI experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3705-3708

  McFadden, J P ^a   Mozer, F S ^a   Vernetti, J ^a   Sircar, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (ELECTRON TUBE); IMAGE SENSORS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL FILMS;

POLAR IMAGERS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

INSTRUMENTATION; PIXEL;

EID: 0032193193     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02571     Document Type: Article

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