Clear-sky narrowband albedos derived from VIRS and MODIS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5235, Issue , 2004, Pages 101-109

  Sun Mack, Sunny ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^b   Chen, Yan ^a   Arduini, Robert F ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CERES; MODIS; Radiation; Remote sensing; Snow albedo; Spectral albedo; VIRS

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIATION; SCANNING; VEGETATION;

CERES; MODIS; SNOW ALBEDO; SPECTRAL ALBEDO; VIRS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1942484486     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.511180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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