Establishing the Antarctic Dome C community reference standard site towards consistent measurements from Earth observation satellites

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 498-513

  Cao, Changyong ^a   Uprety, Sirish ^b   Xiong, Jack ^c   Wu, Aisheng ^d   Jing, Ping ^e   Smith, David ^f   Chander, Gyanesh ^g   Fox, Nigel ^h   Ungar, Stephen ^c  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b Perot Systems Government Services   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e IM Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^f RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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

^h NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; CAL/VAL; CLIMATE CHANGE DETECTION; CLIMATE QUALITY; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; EARTH OBSERVING 1; ENVISAT; GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; HYPERION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LANDSAT-7 (L7) ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); LONG TERM STABILITY; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; REFERENCE STANDARD; REFLECTIVE SOLAR BANDS; REFLECTIVITY CHANGES; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE RADIOMETER; SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSORS; SPACE AGENCY; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

BAND STRUCTURE; CALIBRATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DOMES; EARTH (PLANET); GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INSTRUMENTS; OBSERVATORIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTROMETERS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77957860482     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m10-075     Document Type: Article

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