Calibration monitoring of the visible and near-infrared channels of the along-track scanning radiometer-2 by use of stable terrestrial sites

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 515-523

  Smith, Dave L ^a   Mutlow, Chris T ^a   Rao, C R Nagaraja ^b  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTODIODES; RADIOMETERS;

OPTICAL THICKNESS;

INFRARED RADIATION;

EID: 0037137795     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000515     Document Type: Article

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