SeaWiFS long-term solar diffuser reflectance and sensor noise analyses

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 762-773

  Eplee Jr , Robert E ^a   Patt, Frederick S ^a   Barnes, Robert A ^a   McClain, Charles R ^b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); NASA; ORBITS; REFLECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSOR (SEAWIFS); SOLAR CALIBRATION; SOLAR DIFFUSER;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33947185445     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000762     Document Type: Article

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