Radiometric calibration of the jandsat MSS sensor series

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2380-2399

  Helder, Dennis L ^a   Karki, Sadhana ^b   Bhatt, Rajendra ^c   Micijevic, Esad ^d,e   Aaron, David ^f   Jasinski, Benjamin ^g  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

^b Bank of New York Mellon   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d SGT INC   (United States)

^e US Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center   (United States)

^f SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital number (DN); Earth Resources Technology Satellite; Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC); infrared (IR); Multispectral Scanner System (MSS); neutral density filter (NDF); photo multiplier tubes (PMTs); pseudoinvariant calibration sites (PICSs); Thematic Mapper (TM); time dependent factor (TDF)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION SITE; DIGITAL NUMBERS; GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER SYSTEMS; NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTERS; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; THEMATIC MAPPERS; TIME-DEPENDENT FACTORS;

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; INSTRUMENTS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE FLIGHT;

SATELLITES;

CALIBRATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; RADIOMETER; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84861340047     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2171351     Document Type: Article

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