The moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS): Land remote sensing for global change research

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1228-1249

  Justice, Christopher O ^a   Vermote, Eric ^b   Townshend, John R G ^c   Defries, Ruth ^d   Roy, David P ^e   Hall, Dorothy K ^f   Salomonson, Vincent V ^a   Privette, Jeffrey L ^b   Riggs, George ^c   Strahler, Alan ^d   Lucht, Wolfgang ^e   Myneni, Ranga B ^f   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Running, Steve W ^b   Nemani, Rama R ^c   Wan, Zhengming ^d   Huete, Alfredo R ^e   Van Leeuwen, Wim ^f   Wolfe, Robert E ^a   Giglio, Louis ^b   Muller, Jan Peter ^c   Lewis, Philip ^d   Barnsley, Michael J ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d Res and Data Systems Corporation   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth observing system moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (eos modis); Global change; Monitoring; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETERS (MODIS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032117362     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.701075     Document Type: Article

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