Earth Radiation Budget Experiment scanner radiometric calibration results

Robert Benjamin Lee III; Michael Alan Gibson; Susan Thomas; J. Robert Mahan; Jeffrey L. Meekins; Nour E. Tira

doi:10.1117/12.21366

1 September 1990 Earth Radiation Budget Experiment scanner radiometric calibration results

Robert Benjamin Lee III, Michael Alan Gibson, Susan Thomas, J. Robert Mahan, Jeffrey L. Meekins, Nour E. Tira

Proceedings Volume 1299, Long-Term Monitoring of the Earth's Radiation Budget; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21366
Event: 1990 Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1990, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) scanning radiometers are producing measurements of the incoming solar, earth/atmosphere-reflected solar, and earth/atmosphere-emitted radiation fields with measurement precisions and absolute accuracies, approaching 1 percent. ERBE uses thermistor bolometers as the detection elements in the narrow-field-of-view scanning radiometers. The scanning radiometers can sense radiation in the shortwave, longwave, and total broadband spectral regions of 0.2 to 5.0, 5.0 to 50.0, and 0.2 to 50.0 micrometers, respectively. Detailed models of the radiometers'' response functions were developed in order to design the most suitable calibration techniques. These models guided the design of in-flight calibration procedures as well as the development and characterization of a vacuum-calibration chamber and the blackbody source which provided the absolute basis upon which the total and longwave radiometers were characterized. The flight calibration instrumentation for the narror-field-of-view scanning radiometers is presented and evaluated.

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Robert Benjamin Lee III, Michael Alan Gibson, Susan Thomas, J. Robert Mahan, Jeffrey L. Meekins, and Nour E. Tira "Earth Radiation Budget Experiment scanner radiometric calibration results", Proc. SPIE 1299, Long-Term Monitoring of the Earth's Radiation Budget, (1 September 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21366

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