Temporal, spectral, and spatial study of the automated vicarious calibration test site at Railroad Valley, Nevada

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7081, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Czapla Myers, Jeffrey S ^a   Thome, Kurtis J ^a   Cocilovo, Byron R ^a   McCorkel, Joel T ^a   Buchanan, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Radiometry; Railroad Valley; Surface reflectance; Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; NUMBER OF DATA; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CODES; RAILROAD VALLEY; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; SURFACE REFLECTANCES; TOP-OF-ATMOSPHERE RADIANCE; UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

ASTROPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; LANDFORMS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RAILROADS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; TESTING;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 52349118008     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.795551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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