Radiance calibration of DMSP-OLS low-light imaging data of human settlements

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-88

  Elvidge, Christopher D ^a   Baugh, Kimberly E ^b   Dietz, John B ^c   Bland, Theodore ^d   Sutton, Paul C ^e   Kroehl, Herbert W ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSES;

OPERATIONAL LINESCAN SYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY;

SATELLITES;

CALIBRATION; DETECTION METHOD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RADIANCE; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

EID: 0033117688     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00098-4     Document Type: Article

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