Verification of AIRS boresight accuracy using coastline detection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 298-302

  Gregorich, David T ^a,b   Aumann, Hartmut H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIRS; Calibration; Coastlines; Geolocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADIOMETERS; SPACECRAFT; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EARTH (PLANET); INFRARED SPECTROMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM AQUA SPACECRAFT; GEOLOCATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0038613090     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808311     Document Type: Article

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