Unmanned vicarious calibration for large-footprint sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5882, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Czapla Myers, Jeffrey ^a   Thome, Kurtis ^a   Biggar, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua MODIS; LED radiometer; Reflectance based calibration; Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

AQUA MODIS; LED RADIOMETER; REFLECTANCE-BASED CALIBRATION; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; PHOTOMETERS; RADIATION; RADIOMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 29244444039     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.618152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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