Impacts of spectral band difference effects on radiometric cross-calibration between satellite sensors in the solar-reflective spectral domain

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-409

  Teillet, P M ^a   Fedosejevs, G ^b   Thome, K J ^c   Barker, John L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Radio calibration; Sensor cross calibration; Spectral bands

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RADIO CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION ERRORS; SENSOR CROSS-CALIBRATION; SPECTRAL BANDS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

CALIBRATION; IMAGING METHOD; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548039675     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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