Illuminating the capabilities of the suomi national Polar-orbiting partnership (NPP) visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS) day/night Band

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6717-6766

  Miller, Steven D ^a   Straka, William ^b   Mills, Stephen P ^c   Elvidge, Christopher D ^d   Lee, Thomas F ^e   Solbrig, Jeremy ^e   Walther, Andi ^b   Heidinger, Andrew K ^f   Weiss, Stephanie C ^g  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Renaissance Man Engineering   (United States)

^d NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Moonlight; Nighttime visible near infrared; Satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MOONLIGHT; NIGHTTIME VISIBLE/NEAR-INFRARED; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SPECIALIZED TECHNOLOGIES; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

INFRARED IMAGING; LIGHT SOURCES; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSORS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 84891426348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5126717     Document Type: Article

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