Postlaunch sensor verification and calibration of the NASA scatterometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 3 II, 1999, Pages 1517-1542

  Tsai, Wu Yang ^a,b   Graf, James E ^a,b   Winn, Carroll ^a,b   Huddleston, James N ^a,b   Dunbar, Scott ^a,b   Freilich, Michael H ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SENSORS;

ADVANCED EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES (ADEOS); POSTLAUNCH VERIFICATION; SCATTEROMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032675711     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.763264     Document Type: Article

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