On-orbit calibration of SeaWiFS

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 36, 2012, Pages 8702-8730

  Eplee, Robert E ^a   Meister, Gerhard ^b   Patt, Frederick S ^a   Barnes, Robert A ^a   Bailey, Sean W ^c   Franz, Bryan A ^b   McClain, Charles R ^b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Futuretech Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOON; NASA; ORBITS; RADIOMETRY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSORS; STABILITY REQUIREMENTS; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION; WATER-LEAVING RADIANCES;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84872027556     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.008702     Document Type: Article

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