A method to derive the multispectral surface albedo consistent with MODIS from historical AVHRR and VGT satellite data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1199-1221

  Trishchenko, Alexander P ^a   Luo, Yi ^a   Khlopenkov, Konstantin V ^a   Wang, Shusen ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CORRELATION METHODS; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS; SUN; VEGETATION;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; LAND APPLICATIONS; LAND COVERS; MULTISPECTRAL; NONLINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDICES; RETRIEVAL ACCURACIES; SATELLITE DATUMS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL CYCLES; SOLAR RADIATION BUDGETS; SPECTRAL ALBEDOS; SPECTRAL CHANNELS; SPECTRAL COVERAGES; SPECTRAL DATUMS; SURFACE ALBEDOS; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME SERIES;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ALBEDO; AVHRR; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 53649101271     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1724.1     Document Type: Article

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