Infrared limb sounding of titan with the cassini composite infraRed spectrometer: Effects of the mid-IR detector spatial responses

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1912-1925

  Nixon, Conor A ^a,b   Teanby, Nicholas A ^c   Calcutt, Simon B ^c   Aslam, Shahid ^b,d   Jennings, Donald E ^b   Kunde, Virgil G ^a,b   Flasar, F Michael ^b   Irwin, Patrick G J ^c   Taylor, Fredric W ^c   Glenar, David A ^b   Smith, Michael D ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MEI Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; PLANETS; REMOTE SENSING;

CASSINI COMPOSITE INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; CASSINI SATURN ORBITER; GROUND TESTING; HGCDTE DETECTORS; LIMB SOUNDING; SATURN'S ATMOSPHERE; SPATIAL RESPONSE; SPATIAL RESPONSE FUNCTIONS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 65249085064     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001912     Document Type: Article

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