Vicarious calibration of ASTER via the reflectance-based approach

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3285-3295

  Thome, Kurt J ^a   Arai, Kohei ^b   Tsuchida, Satoshi ^c   Biggar, Stuart F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absolute radiometric calibration; Advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER); Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; REFLECTION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ABSOLUTE RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION; ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER (ASTER); CALIBRATION PROCESSING; ON-BOARD CALIBRATION; REFLECTANCE-BASED APPROACH; SHORTER WAVELENGTHS; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION; VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 53849116860     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.928730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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