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Conference Presentations

Bai, Y., C. Cao, and X. Shao, SPIE 2015, Assessment of scan-angle dependent radiometric bias of Suomi-NPP VIIRS day/night band from night light point source observations

Cao, C., E. Zong, Y. Bai, and X. Shao, SPIE 2015, Preliminary study for improving the VIIRS DNB low light calibration accuracy with ground based active light source

Padula, F., and C. Cao, 2014, Using S-NPP VIIRS as a Transfer Radiometer to Inter-compare GOES-R ABI and Himawari-8 AHI, AMS 2014 presentation

Cao, C., and M. Goldberg, 2014, NOAA Satellite Programs - Cal/Val Overview, JACIE workshop, March 2014

Cao, C., S. Uprety, S. Blonski, S. Shao, and M. Liu, 2012, Establishing Radiometric Consistency among VIIRS, MODIS and AVHRR Using SNO and SNOx methods, IGARSS

Blonski, S., and C. Cao, 2012, NOAA Calibration/Validation Update, WGCV-34, February 2012

Cao, C., 2012, NPP VIIRS SDR Postlaunch Calibration/Validation, AMS 2012 presentation

Cao, C., F. De Luccia, J. Xiong, 2011, VIIRS SDR user readiness, IGARSS