Operational Readiness for the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the earth observing system aqua spacecraft

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4483, Issue , 2002, Pages 35-43

  Pagano, Thomas S ^a   Elliot, Denis A ^a   Gunson, Michael R ^a   Aumann, Hartmut H ^a   Gaiser, Steven L ^a   Dehghani, Navid ^a   Overoye, Kenneth ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIRS; Aqua; Calibration; Earth science; EOS; Operations; Sounder

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; CALIBRATION; EARTH SCIENCES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENT TESTING;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; INSTRUMENT DESIGN;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0036394787     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.453468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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