Operational activities and on-orbit performance of terra MODIS on-board calibrators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5882, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Barnes, Williams ^a   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^b   Salerno, Tony ^c   Breen, Bryan ^c   Salo, Chad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c STG Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackbody; MODIS; On board calibrators; Solar diffuser; Spectro radiometric calibration assembly

Indexed keywords

BLACKBODY; MODIS; ON-BOARD CALIBRATORS; SOLAR DIFFUSER; SPECTRO-RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION ASSEMBLY;

CALIBRATION; CHARACTERIZATION; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); IMAGE SENSORS; ORBITS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 29244469156     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.615384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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