Uncertainty estimates for imager reference inter-calibration with CLARREO reflected solar spectrometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1425-1436

  Lukashin, Constantine ^a   Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Young, David F ^a   Thome, Kurt ^b   Jin, Zhonghai ^c   Sun, Wenbo ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; polarization; radiometry

Indexed keywords

DATA SAMPLING; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; GLOBAL SET; HIGH ACCURACY CALIBRATION; IMAGING RADIOMETERS; INCOMING LIGHT; INTERCALIBRATION; MEAN VALUES; MISSION OBJECTIVES; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; NUMERIC ESTIMATE; ON ORBIT; POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZATION DISTRIBUTIONS; POLARIZATION EFFECT; POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZATION STATE; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTIONS; REFLECTED LIGHT; SINGLE SAMPLE; THEORETICAL MODELS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

INSTRUMENTS; MULTIPLEXING; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REACTOR CORES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; SENSOR; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874662584     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2233480     Document Type: Article

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