Publisher's Synopsis
Present and future visible and near-infrared wavelength sensors mounted on operational satellites do not have on-board absolute calibration devices. One means of establishing an in-orbit calibration for a satellite sensor is to make simultaneous measurements of a bright, relatively uniform scene along the satellite view vector from a calibrated instrument on board a high altitude aircraft. Aircraft data were recorded over White Sands, New Mexico, and the coincident aircraft and orbiting satellite data is compared for the visible and near-infrared wavelength channel of the GOES-6 Visible Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer. Smith, Gilbert R. and Levin, Robert H. and Koyanagi, Robert S. and Wrigley, Robert C. Ames Research Center NASA-TM-101064, A-89027, NAS 1.15:101064 RTOP 142-20-37...
