The use of the Sonoran Desert as a pseudo-invariant site for optical sensor cross-calibration and long-term stability monitoring

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1656-1659

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

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

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

^c SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; CALIBRATION UNCERTAINTY; GLOBAL HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY NETWORK; LANDSAT-5 (L5) THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSAT-7 (L7) ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 78650921114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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