Desert-based absolute calibration of successive geostationary visible sensors using a daily exoatmospheric radiance model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3670-3682

  Bhatt, Rajendra ^a   Doelling, David R ^a   Morstad, Daniel ^b   Scarino, Benjamin R ^a   Gopalan, Arun ^a  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostationary visible imager calibration; pseudoinvariant calibration targets; Spectral band adjustment factor (SBAF)

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSORS; SPECTROMETERS;

ADJUSTMENT FACTORS; CALIBRATION TARGETS; GEOSTATIONARY EARTH ORBIT SATELLITES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SCANNING IMAGING ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC CARTOGRAPHIES (SCIAMACHY); SPECTRAL RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; TOP-OF-ATMOSPHERE RADIANCES; VISIBLE IMAGER;

CALIBRATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CALIBRATION; CLEAR SKY; DESERT; GOES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; METEOSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSOR; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; SONORAN DESERT;

EID: 84896388461     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2274594     Document Type: Article

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