An empirical approach to ocean color data: Reducing bias and the need for post-launch radiometric re-calibration

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1598-1612

  Gregg, Watson W ^a   Casey, Nancy W ^b   O'Reilly, John E ^c   Esaias, Wayne E ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean chlorophyll; Ocean color; Ocean color algorithms; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION ERROR; COASTAL REGIONS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FIELD SAMPLING; GEOPHYSICAL PRODUCTS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; IN-SITU; IN-SITU DATA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN CHLOROPHYLL; OCEAN COLOR; OCEAN COLOR ALGORITHMS; OCEAN COLOR REMOTE SENSING; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; RECALIBRATION; SEAWIFS; STANDARD METHOD; SURFACE VARIABLES; UNIFIED DESCRIPTION; WATER-LEAVING RADIANCES;

ALGORITHMS; BAND STRUCTURE; CALIBRATION; CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL ZONES; COLOR; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; ERRORS; LAUNCHING; NASA; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PORPHYRINS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

IN SITU PROCESSING;

CALIBRATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; OCEAN COLOR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 67349095749     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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