Development of an operational calibration methodology for the Landsat thermal data archive and initial testing of the atmospheric compensation component of a land surface temperature (LST) product from the archive

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11244-11266

  Cook, Monica ^a   Schott, John R ^a   Mandel, John ^a   Raqueno, Nina ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Land surface temperature; Landsat

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; NASA; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ABSOLUTE-RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPENSATION; CALIBRATION METHODOLOGIES; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LANDSAT; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84912100009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61111244     Document Type: Article

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