Radiometric performance of the CERES earth radiation budget climate record sensors on the EOS aqua and terra spacecraft

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6677, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Priestley, Kory J ^a   Smith, G Louis ^b   Thomas, Susan ^c   Cooper, Denise ^b,c   Lee III, Robert B ^b   Walikainen, Dale ^c   Hess, Phil ^c   Peter Szewczyk, Z ^c   Wilson, Robert ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b National Institute for Aerospace   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; CERES; Earth radiation budget; EOS; Radiometry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION ACCURACY; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET; SYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; UNFILTERED RADIANCES;

CALIBRATION; EARTH (PLANET); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; RADIOMETRY; SPACECRAFT;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 42149191465     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.735294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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