Monitoring the NOAA operational VIIRS RSB and DNB calibration stability using monthly and semi-monthly deep convective clouds time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Wenhui ^a   Cao, Changyong ^b  

^a Earth Resource Technology Inc   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration stability monitoring; Day night band; Deep convective clouds; Reflective solar bands; Shortwave infrared bands; Suomi NPP; VIIRS; Visible near infrared bands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957873710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010032     Document Type: Article

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