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Radiometry Sensing the World
This article describes some of the methods developed to make accurate measurement of light a reality. We describe three ongoing research programs aimed at establishing measurement chains between fundamental optical flux measurements and the more practical quantities of commercial and scientific interest: spectral irradiance, spectral radiance, and radiance temperature.
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