Using the Sonoran and Libyan Desert test sites to monitor the temporal stability of reflective solar bands for Landsat 7 enhanced thematic mapper plus and Terra moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer sensors

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Angal, Amit ^a   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^b   Choi, Taeyoung ^c   Chander, Gyanesh ^d   Wu, Aisheng ^c  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

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

Author keywords

BRDF; calibration; Libya 4; MODIS; Sonoran

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTROMETERS; STABILITY;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; BRDF; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; LANDSAT-7 (L7) ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); LIBYA 4; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; MODIS; SONORAN;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 77957875502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3424910     Document Type: Article

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