Vicarious calibration of the Formosat-2 remote sensing instrument

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2162-2169

  Liu, Cheng Chien ^a   Kamei, Akihide ^b   Hsu, Kuo Hsien ^c   Tsuchida, Satoshi ^b   Huang, Hsin Mei ^c   Kato, Soushi ^a,d   Nakamura, Ryosuke ^b   Wu, An Ming ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER); Formosat 2; In orbit calibration; Radiometric calibration; Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; FORMOSAT-2; IN-ORBIT CALIBRATIONS; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

ORBITS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASTER; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DEGRADATION; EMISSION; FORMOSAT-2; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

FRANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958829072     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2033179     Document Type: Article

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