Analysis of the NPOESS VIIRS land surface temperature algorithm using MODIS data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2340-2349

  Yu, Yunyue ^a,b,d   Privette, Jeffrey L ^a,c,e   Pinheiro, Ana C ^c,f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d GSFC   (United States)

^e NPOESS Preparatory Project   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface temperature (LST); Moderate Res olution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS); National Polar Orbiting Environmental Sensor Suite (NPOESS); NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP); Split window (SW); Visible Infrared Imager Ra diometer Sensor (VIIRS)

Indexed keywords

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE (LST); MODERATE RES-OLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER (MRIS); NATIONAL POLAR ORBITING ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR SUITE (NPOESS); NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT (NPP); SPLIT WINDOW (SW);

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SENSORS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 27744437345     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.856114     Document Type: Article

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