Creating proxy VIIRS data from MODIS: Spectral transformations for mid- and thermal-infrared bands

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3768-3782

  Vogel, Ronald L ^a   Privette, Jeffrey L ^a   Yu, Nyue ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared; Remote sensing; Simulation; Visible infrared imager radiometer suite (VIIRS)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTICAL SENSORS; ORBITS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SOUNDING APPARATUS; SPECTROMETERS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; CURRENT SENSORS; DATA SETS; EARTH RADIATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; EQUATION COEFFICIENTS; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; HYPERSPECTRAL; INFRARED; INFRARED BANDS; INFRARED IMAGER; MID INFRARED; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUMS; NEW SATELLITES; NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECTS; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS; PROXY DATUMS; SENSOR DATUMS; SENSOR NOISES; SIMULATION; SKY CONDITIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SURFACE TYPES; TRANSFER MODELS; TRANSFORMATION EQUATIONS; VISIBLE-INFRARED IMAGER-RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS);

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 56849124307     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.923320     Document Type: Article

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