Long-term vicarious calibration of GOSAT short-wave sensors: Techniques for error reduction and new estimates of radiometric degradation factors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3991-4004

  Kuze, Akihiko ^a   Taylor, Thomas E ^b,c   Kataoka, Fumie ^d   Bruegge, Carol J ^e   Crisp, David ^e   Harada, Masatomo ^a   Helmlinger, Mark ^e   Inoue, Makoto ^f   Kawakami, Shuji ^a   Kikuchi, Nobuhiro ^f   Mitomi, Yasushi ^d   Murooka, Jumpei ^a   Naitoh, Masataka ^a   O'Brien, Denis M ^b,g   O'Dell, Christopher W ^c   Ohyama, Hirofumi ^a,h   Pollock, Harold ^e   Schwandner, Florian M ^e   Shiomi, Kei ^a   Suto, Hiroshi ^a   Takeda, Toru ^a   Tanaka, Tomoaki ^a,i   Urabe, Tomoyuki ^a   Yokota, Tatsuya ^f   Yoshida, Yukio ^f   more..

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

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

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^d REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^g O'Brien R and D LLC   (United States)

^h NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide ( hbox CO 2 ) ; Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT); short wave infrared (SWIR); Thermal And Near infrared Sensor for carbon Observations (TANSO); Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ESTIMATION; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIOMETRY; SENSORS;

FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; GREENHOUSE GASES OBSERVING SATELLITES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEAR-INFRARED SENSORS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION;

AEROSOL; CALIBRATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GOSAT; GREENHOUSE GAS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STABILIZATION;

NEVADA; RAILROAD VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896401023     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2278696     Document Type: Article

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