Potential for calibration of geostationary meteorological satellite imagers using the Moon

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5882, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Stone, Thomas C ^a   Kieffer, Hugh H ^b   Grant, Ian F ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Celestial Reasonings   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geostationary imagers; Irradiance; Moon; On orbit calibration

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY IMAGERS; IRRADIANCE; LUNAR CALIBRATIONS; ON-ORBIT CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; EARTH (PLANET); IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHTING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOON; SPACECRAFT;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

EID: 29244439988     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.620097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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