Time-dependent response versus scan angle for MODIS reflective solar bands

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3159-3174

  Sun, Junqiang ^a   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^b   Angal, Amit ^c   Chen, Hongda ^a   Wu, Aisheng ^a   Geng, Xu ^a  

^a SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua; desert; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); moon; reflective solar bands (RSBs); response versus scan angle (RVS); scan mirror; solar diffuser (SD); Terra

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); LANDFORMS; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; MOON; NASA; ORBITS; RADIOMETERS;

AQUA; DESERT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; REFLECTIVE SOLAR BANDS; RESPONSE VERSUS SCAN ANGLE; SCAN MIRROR; SOLAR DIFFUSERS; TERRA;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AQUA (SATELLITE); CALIBRATION; DESERT; FUEL CELL; MODIS; MOON; SOLAR POWER; SPACECRAFT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TERRA (SATELLITE);

EID: 84896314556     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2271448     Document Type: Article

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