Computer modeling of earthshine contamination on the VIIRS solar diffuser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5978, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Mills, Stephen P ^a   Agravante, Hiroshi ^a   Hauss, Bruce ^a   Klein, James E ^b   Weiss, Stephanie C ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Earthshine; NPOESS; Solar diffuser; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE SENSORS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

EARTHSHINE; NPOESS; SOLAR-DIFFUSER; VIIRS;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33244471576     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.627746     Document Type: Conference Paper

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