Ground performance measurements of the glory aerosol polarimetry sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7807, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Persh, Steven ^a   Shaham, Y J ^a   Benami, Oren ^a   Cairns, Brian ^b   Mishchenko, Michael I ^b   Hein, Jeffrey D ^c   Fafaul, Bryan A ^c  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor; aerosols; global warming; Glory Mission; polarimetry; Polarization

Indexed keywords

BORESIGHT; CALIBRATION SOURCE; DYNAMIC RANGE; EARTH OBSERVING; EARTH'S CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; GLORY MISSION; GROUND TESTING; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; POLARIMETRY; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIOMETRIC ACCURACY; SCAN ANGLE; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SPACECRAFT LEVELS;

EARTH (PLANET); ELLIPSOMETRY; GLOBAL WARMING; INSTRUMENT TESTING; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SENSORS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 78549246736     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.862029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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