Absolute radiometric calibration of landsat using a pseudo invariant calibration site

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1360-1369

  Helder, Dennis ^a   Thome, Kurtis J ^b   Mishra, Nischal ^a   Chander, Gyanesh ^c   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^b   Angal, Amit ^d   Choi, Taeyoung ^e  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^e SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute calibration; EO 1 Hyperion; L7 ETM+; radiometric calibration; Relative Spectral Response (RSR); Terra MODIS

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; HYPERION; L7 ETM; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; RELATIVE SPECTRAL RESPONSE; TERRA-MODIS;

ORBITS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SENSORS;

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; HYPERION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; PRECISION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TERRA (SATELLITE);

HYPERION;

EID: 84874654062     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2243738     Document Type: Article

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