The ground-based absolute radiometric calibration of Landsat 8 OLI

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 600-626

  Czapla Myers, Jeffrey ^a   McCorkel, Joel ^b   Anderson, Nikolaus ^a   Thome, Kurtis ^b   Biggar, Stuart ^a   Helder, Dennis ^c   Aaron, David ^c   Leigh, Larry ^c   Mishra, Nischal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c South Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Landsat 8; OLI; Radiometric calibration; Surface reflectance

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRY; SPECIFICATIONS;

ABSOLUTE-RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; LANDSAT; OLI; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; REFLECTANCE-BASED APPROACH; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

REFLECTION;

EID: 84920828911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70100600     Document Type: Article

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