Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR): Instrument technology

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3872-3895

  Dunagan, Stephen E ^a   Johnson, Roy ^a   Zavaleta, Jhony ^a   Russell, Philip B ^a   Schmid, Beat ^b   Flynn, Connor ^b   Redemann, Jens ^a   Shinozuka, Yohei ^c,d   Livingston, John ^e   Segal Rosenhaimer, Michal ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^d BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Climate; Fiber optic; Hyperspectral; Pollution; Radiometry; Technology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; CLIMATE; DIFFRACTION SPECTROSCOPY; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HYPERSPECTRAL; INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS;

AEROSOLS; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FIBER OPTICS; POLLUTION; RADIOMETRY; SCANNING; STARS; TECHNOLOGY;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 84884757206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5083872     Document Type: Article

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