Local analysis of MISR surface BRF and albedo over GSFC and Mongu AERONET sites

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1707-1717

  Lvaoustin, Alexei ^b,c   Wang, Yujie ^b,c   Martonchik, John ^d   Privette, Jeffrey L ^a,c   Holben, Brent ^c   Slutsker, Ilya ^c   Sinyuk, Alexander ^c   Smirnov, Alexander ^b,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET); Albedo; Atmospheric correction; Bidirectional reflectance; Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR); Validation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; RADIOMETERS;

AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORK (AERONET); ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; MULTIANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MISR); VALIDATION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746333855     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.856678     Document Type: Article

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