MODIS: Advanced Facility Instrument for Studies of the Earth as a System

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 145-153

  Salomonson, Vincent V ^a   Barnes, W L ^a   Maymon, Peter W ^a   Montgomery, Harry E ^a   Ostrow, Harvey ^b  

^a Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ^*

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 84941468678     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.20292     Document Type: Article

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