Assessment of NPP VIIRS ocean color data products: Hope and risk

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8153, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Turpie, Kevin R ^a   Meister, Gerhard ^b   Eplee, Gene ^a   Barnes, Robert A ^a   Franz, Bryan ^b   Patt, Frederick S ^a   Robinson, Wayne D ^a   McClain, Charles R ^b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

climate data record; NPP; Ocean Color; satellite remote sensing; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; NPP; OCEAN COLOR; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; VIIRS;

COLOR; EARTH (PLANET); INSTRUMENTS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE FLIGHT; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 80054688037     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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