A direct algorithm for estimating land surface broadband albedos from MODIS imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 136-145

  Liang, Shunlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband albedo; Land surface; MODIS; Multi spectral imagery; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; LANDFORMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

BROADBAND ALBEDO; LAND SURFACE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER IMAGERY; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0037243198     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.807751     Document Type: Article

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