VIIRS on-orbit calibration for ocean color data processing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8510, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Eplee, Robert E ^a   Turpie, Kevin R ^a   Fireman, Gwyn F ^a   Meister, Gerhard ^b   Stone, Thomas C ^c   Patt, Frederick S ^a   Franz, Bryan A ^b   Bailey, Sean W ^d   Robinson, Wayne D ^a   McClain, Charles R ^b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Futuretech Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Lunar calibration; Radiometric stability; Solar calibration; Vicarious calibration; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COLOR; DATA HANDLING; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORBITS; RADIOMETRY; TIME SERIES;

DATA PRODUCTS; LUNAR CALIBRATIONS; OCEAN COLOR; OCEAN SCIENCE; ON-ORBIT CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRIC STABILITY; RADIOMETRICS; SOLAR CALIBRATION; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION; VIIRS;

REFLECTION;

EID: 84872580575     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.930483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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