The MODIS Land product quality assessment approach

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 62-76

  Roy, David P ^a,b   Borak, Jordan S ^b   Devadiga, Sadashiva ^b   Wolfe, Robert E ^b   Zheng, Min ^b   Descloitres, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONITORING; RADIOMETERS;

QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA QUALITY; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036846162     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00087-1     Document Type: Article

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