Monitoring of radiometric sensitivity changes of space sensors using deep convective clouds: Operational application to PARASOL

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 851-861

  Fougnie, Bertrand ^a   Bach, Régis ^a,b  

^a CNES   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Calibration; Clouds; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Scattering; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CALIBRATION; MONITORING; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DISCRETE ORDINATES; IN ORBITS; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; RADIOMETRIC SENSITIVITIES; SHORT-WAVE INFRARED; SPACE SENSORS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ASPECTS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL RANGES; TEMPORAL DRIFTS; TRANSFER COMPUTATIONS;

CLOUDS;

CALIBRATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 61349103022     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2005634     Document Type: Article

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