Shedding new light on nocturnal monitoring of the environment with the VIIRS day/night band

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5890, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Miller, Steven D ^a   Lee, Thomas F ^a   Turk, F Joseph ^a   Kuciauskas, Arunas P ^a   Hawkins, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

DMSP OLS; Dust; GOES; MODIS; Nighttime satellite applications; NPOESS; Snow; VIIRS DNB

Indexed keywords

DUST; INFRARED RADIATION; METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; STORMS;

DUST STORM; NIGHTTIME VISIBLE BANDS; OPERATIONAL LINESCAN SYSTEM (OLS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 29344457814     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.619534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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