Climate quality broadband and narrowband solar reflected radiance calibration between sensors in orbit

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Doelling, David R ^a   Young, David F ^a   Loeb, Norman G ^a   Garber, Donald P ^a   MacDonnell, David G ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Meteorology; Remote Sensing

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; ALL-SKY; BROADBAND RADIANCES; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE QUALITY; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; CRITICAL CHALLENGES; DATA PRODUCTS; DATA SETS; DECADAL CHANGE; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET; GEOSTATIONARY IMAGERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; HIGH STABILITY; IN-ORBIT; INFRARED SPECTRUM; INTERCALIBRATION; INTERCOMPARISONS; LAND COVER; NARROW BANDS; NEW APPROACHES; OCEAN COLOR; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RADIANCE CALIBRATION; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SEAWIFS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERMAL INFRARED SENSORS; TIME-SCALE;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BAND STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; FEEDBACK; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; REMOTE SENSING; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROMETERS; STABILITY; SUN;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 67649763928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4778842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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