Rayleigh, deep convective clouds, and cross-sensor desert vicarious calibration validation for the PROBA-V mission

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1437-1452

  Sterckx, Sindy ^a   Livens, Stefan ^a   Adriaensen, Stefan ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cross sensor desert; deep convective clouds (DCC); rayleigh; vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION ALGORITHM; COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM; CROSS-SENSOR DESERT; DATA CONTINUITY; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; GLOBAL MONITORING; IN-FLIGHT CALIBRATION; LAND-MASSES; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; ON-BOARD CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; RAYLEIGH; REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETRY; SENSORS;

CALIBRATION;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DESERT; MODEL VALIDATION; PROBA; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SPOT;

EID: 84874660876     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2236682     Document Type: Article

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