Copernicus Sentinel-2A calibration and products validation status

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Gascon, Ferran ^a   Bouzinac, Catherine ^b   Thépaut, Olivier ^b   Jung, Mathieu ^c   Francesconi, Benjamin ^d   Louis, Jérôme ^e   Lonjou, Vincent ^f   Lafrance, Bruno ^b   Massera, Stéphane ^g   Gaudel Vacaresse, Angélique ^f   Languille, Florie ^f   Alhammoud, Bahjat ^h   Viallefont, Françoise ⁱ   Pflug, Bringfried ^j   Bieniarz, Jakub ^j   Clerc, Sébastien ^h   Pessiot, Laëtitia ^b   Trémas, Thierry ^f   Cadau, Enrico ^a   De Bonis, Roberto ^a   Isola, Claudia ^a   Martimort, Philippe ^a   Fernandez, Valérie ^a   more..

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^b CS Systemes d'Information Company   (France)

^c AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^d THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

^e Telespazio   (France)

^f CNES   (France)

^g INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^h Le Grand Large Quai de la Douane   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ONERA   (France)

^j GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Calibration; Imagery; Instrument; Operational; Optical; Processing; Spatial; Validation

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; INSTRUMENTS; PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGERY; OPERATIONAL; OPTICAL; SPATIAL; VALIDATION;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 85021146089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9060584     Document Type: Article

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