Effects of ice decontamination on GOES-12 imager calibration

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1224-1230

  Wang, Likun ^a   Wu, Xiangqian ^b   Weng, Fuzhong ^b   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostationary imager; Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES); ice contamination; infrared (IR) instrument; intercalibration

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CALIBRATION ACCURACY; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; GEOSTATIONARY IMAGER; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; IMAGER CALIBRATION; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; INTERCALIBRATION; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; WATER-VAPOR ABSORPTION;

CALIBRATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECONTAMINATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

ICE;

ABSORPTION; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; GOES; IASI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84874650053     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2225839     Document Type: Article

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