Scientific data stewardship of international satellite cloud climatology project B1 global geostationary observations

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Knapp, Kenneth R ^a  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Data stewardship; Geostationary; Navigation; Satellite

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; NAVIGATION; SATELLITES; STORMS; CLOUDS; DATA HANDLING; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE RESEARCH; DATA STEWARDSHIP; GEOSTATIONARY; GEOSTATIONARY OBSERVATIONS; INFRARED WINDOWS; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTERS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; INFRARED IMAGERS; SCIENTIFIC DATA;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 61349121520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3043461     Document Type: Article

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