Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument level 1 science data validation plan for geolocated radiances

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2820, Issue , 1996, Pages 105-116

  Lee, Robert B ^a   Childers, Brooks A ^a   Louis Smith, G ^a   Paden, Jack ^b   Pandey, Dhirendra K ^b   Thomas, Susan ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometer; Calibration; Climate; Geolocation; Longwave; Metrology; Radiation; Radiometry; Shortwave; Solar; Validation

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; BUDGET CONTROL; CALIBRATION; DATA REDUCTION; HEAT RADIATION; INCANDESCENT LAMPS; MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRY; THERMISTORS;

CLIMATE; GEOLOCATIONS; LONG WAVES; SHORTWAVE; SOLAR; VALIDATION;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 58749102557     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.258093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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