Railroad Valley, Nevada
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Radiometrically flat region used to calibrate various spacecraft radiometers. See for example "2003 RAILROAD VALLEY VICARIOUS CALIBRATION EXPERIMENT", envisat.esa.int/workshops/matv_2003/MAVT-2003_207-paper_CBruegge.pdf, for details of calibration of the MISR experiment on the Terra EOS spacecraft.
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Coordinates: 38°24'20"N 115°43'56"W
- Groom Lake 123 km
- Steven's Basin 126 km
- X-15 Rocket Plane Emergency Landing Site, Mud Lake 132 km
- Crescent Dunes 141 km
- Clayton Valley Dunes 186 km
- Mountain Meadow 210 km
- Wheeler Amphitheater 237 km
- St. George Municipal Airport (SGU/KSGU) 246 km
- Racetrack Playa 250 km
- Dugway Geode Beds 277 km
- Grant Mountain Range 15 km
- The Wall Wilderness Area 21 km
- Trap Spring Oil Field 26 km
- Worthington Mountains 60 km
- Reveille Range 61 km
- Coal Valley 61 km
- Little Fish Lake Valley 72 km
- McKinney Mountains 93 km
- Tonopah Test Range (Area 51-A) 108 km
- Nevada Test and Training Range 143 km