Generating global surface albedo products from multiple geostationary satellites

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2804-2816

  Govaerts, Y M ^a   Lattanzio, A ^b   Taberner, M ^c   Pinty, B ^c  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^b Makalumedia   (Germany)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Essential climate variables; Geostationary satellites; Surface albedo

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; RADIOMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLES; SURFACE ALBEDO;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; MODIS; POLAR REGION; RADIOMETER; TIME SERIES; WEATHER;

EID: 43949104408     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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