MODIS onboard blackbody function and performance

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4210-4222

  Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^a   Wenny, Brian N ^b   Wu, Aisheng ^b   Barnes, William L ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackbody (BB); Calibration; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Onboard calibrators (OBCs); Temperature stability

Indexed keywords

AQUA MODIS; CALIBRATION SOURCE; DATA PRODUCTS; DESIGN SPECIFICATION; DETECTOR RESPONSE; FIXED TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL OBSERVATION; IN-ORBIT; LINEAR CALIBRATION; LONG TERM STABILITY; LONGWAVE INFRARED; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR CALIBRATION; ON-BOARD CALIBRATORS; ON-ORBIT; ONBOARD CALIBRATORS (OBCS); OPERATING TEMPERATURE; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; SPATIAL CALIBRATION; TEMPERATURE DRIFTS; TEMPERATURE STABILITY; TEMPERATURE STANDARD; TEMPERATURE UNIFORMITY; TERRA-MODIS; THERMAL EMISSIVE BANDS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; ORBITS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SECURITY OF DATA; SENSORS; SPECTROMETERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RADIOMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; DATA QUALITY; MODIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOMETER; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70549094286     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2023317     Document Type: Article

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