GSICS inter-calibration of infrared channels of geostationary imagers using metop/IASI

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1160-1170

  Hewison, Tim J ^a   Wu, Xiangqian ^b   Yu, Fangfang ^c   Tahara, Yoshihiko ^d   Hu, Xiuqing ^e   Kim, Dohyeong ^f   Koenig, Marianne ^a  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^f National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Calibration; earth observing system; infrared image sensors; international collaboration; meteorology; satellites

Indexed keywords

CROSS CALIBRATION; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; GEOSTATIONARY IMAGERS; HYPERSPECTRAL; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; INFRARED CHANNEL; INFRARED IMAGE SENSORS; INTERCALIBRATION; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; LOW EARTH ORBIT(LEO); METEOROLOGICAL SENSORS; METEOSAT; OPTICAL CONTAMINATION; QUALITY INDICATORS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; ROOT CAUSE; SPACE-BASED; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL INFRARED;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INFRARED IMAGING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METEOROLOGY; ORBITS; SATELLITES;

CALIBRATION;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; EOS; ERROR CORRECTION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; IASI; METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84874651782     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2238544     Document Type: Article

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