Consistency in the long-term environmental measurements with NOAA advanced very high resolution radiometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6298, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ciren, Pubu ^a   Cao, Changyong ^b   Sullivan, Jerry ^b  

^a QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Intersatellite bias; Simultaneous Nadir overpasses

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; INTERSATELLITE BIAS; SIMULTANEOUS NADIR OVERPASSES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33751362324     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.680622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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