Thermal infrared radiometric calibration of the entire Landsat 4, 5, and 7 archive (1982-2010)

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 122, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-49

  Schott, John R ^a   Hook, Simon J ^b   Barsi, Julia A ^b   Markham, Brian L ^b   Miller, Jonathan ^c   Padula, Francis P ^d   Raqueno, Nina G ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c USAF   (United States)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared; Landsat; Radiometric calibration; Residual uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CRITICAL STEPS; EARTH'S SURFACE; LANDSAT; LANDSAT-4; LANDSAT-5; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; LONG TERM PROCESS; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; RESIDUAL UNCERTAINTY; SPATIAL SCALE; SURFACE RADIOMETRIC TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL DATA; THERMAL INFRARED; THERMAL STATE;

CALIBRATION; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIOMETRY;

DATA HANDLING;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; EARTH SCIENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; LANDSAT; RADIANCE; RADIOMETER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865442712     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.07.022     Document Type: Article

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