(A)ATSR solar channel on-orbit radiometric calibration

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1370-1382

  Smith, David L ^a   Cox, Caroline V ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) (AATSR); calibration; intercomparison; reflectance

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED-ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; BI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTORS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; INTERCOMPARISONS; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; LEVEL-1; LONG TERM DRIFT; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MISSION LIFETIME; MODERATE RES-OLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; ON-ORBIT; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; REFERENCE SENSORS; SOLAR REFLECTANCE CHANNELS; SPECTRAL MISMATCH; TEMPORAL OVERLAP; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; VIEW ANGLES;

CALIBRATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SPECTROMETERS;

SENSORS;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; MODIS; ORBIT DETERMINATION; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR;

EID: 84874665450     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2230333     Document Type: Article

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