Vicarious calibration of GOES imager visible channel using the moon

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6296, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wu, Xiangqian ^a   Stone, Thomas C ^b   Yu, Fangfang ^c   Han, Dejiang ^d  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c ERT Inc   (United States)

^d ASRC Aerospace Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; GOES imager; Lunar irradiance model; MODIS; Post launch calibration; Vicarious calibration; Visible channel

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA REDUCTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTROMETRY;

GOES IMAGERS; LUNAR IRRADIANCE MODELS; LUNAR PIXELS; MODIS; POST LAUNCH CALIBRATION; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION; VISIBLE CHANNELS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750550253     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.681591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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