A physics-based algorithm for retrieving land-surface emissivity and temperature from eos/modis data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 980-996

  Wan, Zhengming ^a   Li, Zhao Liang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RADIOMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE (LST); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS) DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031193235     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.602541     Document Type: Article

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