Characterization of terra and Aqua MODIS VIS, NIR, and SWIR spectral bands' calibration stability

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4330-4338

  Wu, Aisheng ^a   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^b   Doelling, David R ^c   Morstad, Daniel ^d   Angal, Amit ^d   Bhatt, Rajendra ^d  

^a SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua; calibration; MODIS; stability; Terra

Indexed keywords

AQUA; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; ON-ORBIT CALIBRATION; REFLECTIVE SOLAR BANDS; TERRA; TERRA AND AQUA MODIS;

ARID REGIONS; CALIBRATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DESERT; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84874658365     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2226588     Document Type: Article

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