Landsat-5 TM and Landsat-7 ETM+ absolute radiometric calibration using the reflectance-based method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2777-2785

  Thome, Kurtis J ^a   Helder, Dennis L ^b   Aaron, D ^c   DeWald, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b South Dakota State University   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute radiometric calibration; Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CALIBRATION; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SENSORS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

ABSOULTE RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 10944237821     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.839085     Document Type: Article

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