Recent advances in calibration of the GOES imager visible channel at NOAA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8510, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dean, Charles ^a   Chang, I Lok ^a   Li, Zhenping ^b   Weinreb, Michael ^c   Wu, Xiangqian ^d   Yu, Fangfang ^a  

^a ERT Inc   (United States)

^b SGT INC   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; GOES; Signal processing; Stars; Time series; Visible

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; GOES; INTERCALIBRATION; NORMALIZED SIGNALS; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; RELATIVE CALIBRATIONS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; RESPONSIVITY; SINGLE TIME SERIES; VISIBLE; VISIBLE CHANNELS;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; RADIOMETERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STARS; TIME SERIES;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84872546303     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.929036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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