A physical method for the calibration of the AVHRR/3 thermal IR channels 1: The prelaunch calibration data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 996-1019

  Mittaz, Jonathan P D ^a   Harris, Andrew R ^a   Sullivan, Jerry T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Short and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CALIBRATION DATA; CALIBRATION METHOD; CALIBRATION TESTS; CLIMATE MODELING; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; DETECTOR NOISE; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; EXTERNAL CALIBRATION; INTERNAL CALIBRATION; NEW APPROACHES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL METHODS; PHYSICAL TEMPERATURE; RADIOMETRIC TEMPERATURE; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; SURFACE PARAMETER; TEST CHAMBERS; THERMAL INFRARED; THERMAL IR; WEATHER PREDICTION; ZERO BIAS;

INSTRUMENT ERRORS; RADIOMETRY;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AVHRR; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70349167348     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHO636.1     Document Type: Article

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