Simplified atmospheric radiative transfer modelling for estimating incident PAR using MODIS atmosphere products

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 98-113

  Van Laake, Patrick E ^a,b   Sanchez Azofeifa, G Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

MODIS; PAR; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OZONE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROGRAPHS; VEGETATION;

DATA PRODUCTS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION (PAR); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VEGETATION GROWTH;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GROWTH; MODIS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 2342452651     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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