Pre- and post-launch spatial quality of the landsat 8 thermal infrared sensor

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1962-1980

  Wenny, Brian N ^a   Helder, Dennis ^b   Hong, Jungseok ^b   Leigh, Larry ^b   Thome, Kurtis J ^c   Reuter, Dennis ^c  

^a SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b South Dakota State University   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Landsat; Spatial calibration; TIRS

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; NASA; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPACE FLIGHT; WATER RESOURCES;

CALIBRATION EQUIPMENT; LANDSAT; NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; SPATIAL CALIBRATION; STAGGERED ARRANGEMENT; THERMAL INFRARED SENSORS; THERMAL VACUUM CHAMBERS; TIRS;

QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 84926340961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70201962     Document Type: Article

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