Early on-orbit performance of the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite onboard the suomi national polar-orbiting partnership (S-NPP) satellite

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1142-1156

  Cao, Changyong ^a   De Luccia, Frank J ^b   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^c   Wolfe, Robert ^c   Weng, Fuzhong ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth observing satellite; imaging radiometer; postlaunch calibration validation; remote sensing; Suomi NPP; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITE; IMAGING RADIOMETERS; POST-LAUNCH CALIBRATION; SUOMI-NPP; VIIRS;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED IMAGING; NASA; ORBITS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RADIOMETERS;

CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INFRARED IMAGERY; NOAA SATELLITE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVELENGTH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886582220     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2247768     Document Type: Article

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