Coupled retrieval of aerosol optical thickness, columnar water vapor and surface reflectance maps from ENVISAT/MERIS data over land

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2898-2913

  Guanter, Luis ^a   Gómez Chova, Luis ^b   Moreno, Jose ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AERONET; Aerosol optical thickness; Atmospheric correction; Columnar water vapor; MERIS; Surface reflectance

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER VAPOR;

COLUMNAR WATER VAPOR (CWV); ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR (RMSE);

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVISAT-1; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAPPING METHOD; MERIS; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 44149084919     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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