Sensor noise effects of the SWIR bands on MODIS-derived ocean color products

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3280-3292

  Wang, Menghua ^a   Shi, Wei ^a,b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Noise measurement; noise reduction; ocean color products; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AQUA SATELLITES; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ALGORITHM; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS-AQUA; NOISE ERRORS; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; OCEAN COLOR PRODUCTS; OCEAN-COLOR SATELLITES; PRACTICAL METHOD; SENSOR NOISE; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SMOOTHING METHODS; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; WATER-LEAVING RADIANCES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; COLOR; ERRORS; NOISE ABATEMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

INFRARED RADIATION;

AQUA (SATELLITE); ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; MODIS; NOISE; OCEAN COLOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SMOOTHING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865700983     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2183376     Document Type: Article

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