A new method for Suomi-NPP VIIRS day-night band on-orbit radiometric calibration

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 324-334

  Lee, Shihyan ^a   McIntire, Jeff ^a   Oudrari, Hassan ^a   Schwarting, Thomas ^a   Xiong, Xiaoxiong ^b  

^a SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Day night band (DNB); Nighttime; Optical sensor; Satellite; Visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS)

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; OPTICAL SENSORS; ORBITS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

BACKSIDE-ILLUMINATED; DAY-NIGHT BAND (DNB); DISCRETE CALIBRATIONS; NIGHTTIME; OFFLINE CALIBRATIONS; ON-BOARD CALIBRATORS; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; PIXEL; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SENSOR;

EID: 84906789421     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2321835     Document Type: Article

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