Cross calibration of formosat-2 Remote Sensing Instrument (RSI) using terra Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 11 PART2, 2012, Pages 4821-4831

  Kamei, Akihide ^a,b   Nakamura, Kazuki ^c   Yamamoto, Hirokazu ^a   Nakamura, Ryosuke ^a   Tsuchida, Satoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Naotaka ^a   Sekiguchi, Satoshi ^a   Kato, Soushi ^b   Liu, Cheng Chien ^d   Hsu, Kuo Hsien ^e   Wu, An Ming ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER); cross calibration; Formosat 2; Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); radiometric calibration

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SENSORS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; CROSS CALIBRATION; FORMOSAT-2; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS;

CALIBRATION;

ASTER; CALIBRATION; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; FORMOSAT-2; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SIMULATION;

EID: 84869503278     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2194155     Document Type: Article

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