Using the Sonoran Desert test site to monitor the long-term radiometric stability of the Landsat TM/ETM+ and Terra MODIS sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7456, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Angal, A ^a   Xiong, X ^b   Choi, T ^a   Chander, G ^c   Wu, A ^a  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GROUND TARGET; LANDSAT TM/ETM+; LANDSAT-5; LANDSAT-7 ETM+; LONG TERM STABILITY; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS; SONORAN DESERT; SPECTRAL BAND; TEMPORAL STABILITY; TERRA-MODIS; TEST SITE; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LANDFORMS; NASA; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; STABILITY; SURVEYS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 70350153130     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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