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Seawifs technical report series. volume 40; seawifs calibration topics
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Yeh, Eueng-nan Esaias, Wayne E. Eplee Jr., Robert E. Barnes, Robert A. |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Description | For Earth-observing satellite instruments, it was standard to consider each instrument band to have a spectral response that is infinitely narrow, i.e., to have a response from a single wavelength. The SeaWiFS bands, however, have nominal spectral bandwidths of 20 and 40 nm. These bandwidths effect the SeaWiFS measurements on orbit. The effects are also linked to the manner in which the instrument was calibrated and to the spectral shape of the radiance that SeaWiFS views. The spectral shape of that radiance will not be well known on orbit. In this technical memorandum, two source spectra are examined. The first is a 12,000 K Planck function, and the second is based on the modeling results of H. Gordon at the University of Miami. By comparing these spectra, the best available corrections to the SeaWiFS measurements for source spectral shape, plus estimates of the uncertainties in these corrections, can be tabulated. |
| File Size | 4147561 |
| Page Count | 76 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19970027989 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t14n4446q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1997-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Oceanography Radiometers Remote Sensors Temperature Dependence Oxygen Calibrating Satellite Instruments Earth Observations From Space Field of View Water Vapor Remote Sensing Spectral Reflectance Absorption Radiance Spectrum Analysis Atmospheric Attenuation Radiative Transfer Models Brightness Temperature Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
