FLEX End-to-End Mission Performance Simulator

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 4215-4223

  Vicent, Jorge ^a   Sabater, Neus ^a   Tenjo, Carolina ^a   Acarreta, Juan Ramón ^b   Manzano, María ^c   Rivera, Juan Pablo ^a   Jurado, Pedro ^d   Franco, Raffaella ^d   Alonso, Luis ^e   Verrelst, Jochem ^a   Moreno, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b DEIMOS SPACE S L U   (Spain)

^c GMV   (Spain)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX); hyperspectral; imaging spectrometer; mission simulator; radiative transfer; Sentinel 3 (S3); sun induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF); tandem; validation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EARTH (PLANET); FLUORESCENCE; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CALIBRATION/VALIDATION; CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; CHLOROPHYLL; DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE MISSION; SENTINEL; SOFTWARE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 84979492814     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2538300     Document Type: Article

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