Early radiometric validation results of the ceres flight model 1 and 2 instruments onboard NASA's terra spacecraft

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2371-2376

  Priestley, K J ^a   Wielicki, B A ^a   Green, R N ^a   Haeffelin, M P A ^b   Lee, R B ^a   Loeb, N G ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; ORBITS; RADIOMETRY; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

RADIOMETRIC VALIDATION;

SPACECRAFT;

DATA QUALITY; EOS; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOMETER;

EID: 0037544158     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(02)80278-2     Document Type: Article

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