Status of use of lunar irradiance for on-orbit calibration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4483, Issue , 2002, Pages 165-175

  Stone, Thomas C ^a   Kieffer, Hugh H ^a   Anderson, James M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Irradiance; Moon; Spacecraft

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOON; RADIOMETRY; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

CALIBRATED LUNAR IMAGES; LUNAR IRRADIANCE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036398390     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.453450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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