Suomi NPP VIIRS reflective solar band on-orbit radiometric stability and accuracy assessment using desert and Antarctica Dome C sites

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 166, Issue , 2015, Pages 106-115

  Uprety, Sirish ^a   Cao, Changyong ^b  

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

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Calibration; Dome C; Intercomparison; Libya 4; MODIS; OLI; Radiometric accuracy; Radiometric stability; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; DOMES; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; ORBITS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; STABILITY; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

BIAS; INTERCOMPARISONS; LIBYA 4; MODIS; OLI; RADIOMETRIC ACCURACY; VIIRS;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AQUA (SATELLITE); AVHRR; CALIBRATION; DESERT; LANDSAT; MODIS; NSCAT; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SUOMI NPP (SATELLITE); VIIRS;

ANTARCTICA; DOME CONCORDIA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84937923624     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.021     Document Type: Article

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