Long island sound coastal observatory: Assessment of above-water radiometric measurement uncertainties using collocated multi and hyperspectral systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 5842-5860

  Harmel, Tristan ^a   Gilerson, Alexander ^a   Hlaing, Soe ^a   Tonizzo, Alberto ^a   Legbandt, Tom ^a   Weidemann, Alan ^b   Arnone, Robert ^b   Ahmed, Samir ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; COASTAL OBSERVATORY; DATA QUALITY ANALYSIS; HYPERSPECTRAL INSTRUMENT; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION; STRONG CORRELATION; SUPPORT VALIDATIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053957911     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.005842     Document Type: Article

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