Design and characterization of specMACS, a multipurpose hyperspectral cloud and sky imager

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2015-2042

  Ewald, Florian ^a,b   Kölling, Tobias ^a   Baumgartner, Andreas ^b   Zinner, Tobias ^a   Mayer, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SENSING; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERE; DESIGN METHOD; HARDWARE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROMETER; VOLCANIC CLOUD;

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EID: 84968586023     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-2015-2016     Document Type: Article

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