First-light imagery from Suomi NPP VIIRS

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1019-1029

  Hillger, Donald ^a   Kopp, Thomas ^b   Lee, Thomas ^c   Lindsey, Daniel ^a   Seaman, Curtis ^a   Miller, Steven ^a   Solbrig, Jeremy ^c   Kidder, Stanley ^a   Bachmeier, Scott ^d   Jasmin, Tommy ^d   Rink, Tom ^d  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STEWARDSHIP; HIERARCHICAL DATA; IMAGING RADIOMETERS; MULTIBAND; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; POLAR-ORBITING; POLAR-ORBITING SPACECRAFT; VISIBLE IMAGE;

INFRARED IMAGING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84880893492     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00097.1     Document Type: Article

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