A saturated light correction method for DMSP/OLS nighttime satellite imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 389-396

  Letu, Husi ^a   Hara, Masanao ^b   Tana, Gegen ^c   Nishio, Fumihiko ^c  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VisionTech Inc   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP); Operational Linescan System (OLS); radiance calibration image; saturated light; stable light image

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CORRECTION METHOD; CORRELATION EQUATION; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; DIGITAL NUMBERS; ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION; LINEAR CORRELATION; LINESCAN SYSTEM; RADIANCE CALIBRATION; REGRESSION EQUATION; SATURATION EFFECTS; STABLE LIGHT IMAGE; STATISTIC DATA;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CALIBRATION; CORRECTION; DATA SET; DIGITAL IMAGE; ELECTRICAL POWER; ENERGY USE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA;

JAPAN;

EID: 84856329245     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2178031     Document Type: Article

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