Retrieval of land surface bidirectional reflectance and aerosol opacity from ATSR-2 multiangle imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 II, 1999, Pages 526-537

  North, Peter R J ^a   Briggs, Stephen A ^a   Plummer, Stephen E ^b   Settle, Jeffery J ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Albedo; Atmospheric correction; Bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF); Radiative transfer; Second along track scanning radiometer (ATSR 2)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS (ATSR); BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (BRDF);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032757957     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739106     Document Type: Article

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