Absolute calibration of optical satellite sensors using libya 4 pseudo invariant calibration site

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1327-1346

  Mishra, Nischal ^a   Helder, Dennis ^a   Angal, Amit ^b   Choi, Jason ^c   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^d  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute calibration; BRDF; Landsat; MODIS; PICS; Radiometric calibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894611077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6021327     Document Type: Article

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