Monitoring on-orbit calibration stability of the Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ sensors using pseudo-invariant test sites

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 925-939

  Chander, Gyanesh ^a  

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

^b Jack)   (United States)

^c Jason)   (United States)

Author keywords

Algeria 3; Algeria 5; Calibration; CEOS reference standard test sites; Characterization; Landsat 7 ETM+; Libya 1; Libya 4; Mauritania 1; Mauritania 2; Relative Spectral Response (RSR); Terra MODIS; Top of atmosphere (TOA) Reflectance

Indexed keywords

ALGERIA; CEOS REFERENCE STANDARD TEST SITES; LANDSAT-7 ETM+; MAURITANIA 1; REFERENCE STANDARD; RELATIVE SPECTRAL RESPONSE; TERRA-MODIS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERICS; CALIBRATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MONITORING; ORBITS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLOPE STABILITY; SPECTROMETERS; STANDARDS; TARGETS; TESTING;

SENSORS;

CALIBRATION; EOS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; REFLECTANCE;

ALGERIA; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MAURITANIA;

EID: 75449086511     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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