On-orbit absolute blackbody emissivity determination using the heated halo method

Metrologia

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gero, P Jonathan ^a   Taylor, Joseph K ^a   Best, Fred A ^a   Garcia, Raymond K ^a   Revercomb, Henry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACKBODY CAVITY; CALIBRATION BLACKBODY; COMBINED UNCERTAINTY; DETECTION LIMITS; IN-SITU; LABORATORY DEMONSTRATIONS; MONTE CARLO; ON-ORBIT; RADIANCE TEMPERATURES; RAY TRACE; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SPECTRAL EMISSIVITY; SPECTRAL RANGE; THERMAL SOURCE; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ERROR DETECTION; ORBITS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

EID: 84857972602     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/49/2/S1     Document Type: Article

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