Calibration for the solar reflective bands of medium resolution spectral imager onboard FY-3A

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4915-4928

  Hu, Xiuqing ^a   Sun, Ling ^a   Liu, Jingjng ^a   Ding, Lei ^b   Wang, Xianghua ^b   Li, Yuan ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Xu, Na ^a   Chen, Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Degradation rate; instrument monitoring; Medium Resolution Spectral Imager (MERSI); solar reflective band calibration; vicarious calibration (VC)

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROSCOPY;

DEGRADATION RATE; INSTRUMENT MONITORING; MEDIUM RESOLUTION SPECTRAL IMAGER (MERSI); REFLECTIVE BANDS; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; MERSI; MODIS; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TERRA (SATELLITE); WAVELENGTH;

CHINA;

EID: 84870441364     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2214226     Document Type: Article

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