Vicarious calibration of sUAS microbolometer temperature imagery for estimation of radiometric land surface temperature

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Torres Rua, Alfonso ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction; Microbolometer cameras; sUAS; Surface temperature; Thermal calibration; Thermal remote sensing; Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; OVERPASSES; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; MICROBOLOMETER; SUAS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL CALIBRATION; THERMAL REMOTE SENSING; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85021439392     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17071499     Document Type: Article

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