VIIRS narrowband to broadband land surface albedo conversion: Formula and validation

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1019-1025

  Liang, S ^a   Yu, Y ^b   Defelice, T P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

GROUND MEASUREMENTS; LAND SURFACES; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ALBEDOS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 13644268630     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160512331340156     Document Type: Article

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