Estimating high spatial resolution clear-sky land surface upwelling longwave radiation from MODIS data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1559-1570

  Wang, Wenhui ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a   Augustine, John A ^b  

^a I M Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Neural networks; Remote sensing; Satellite applications; Surface radiation budget (SRB); Surface upwelling longwave radiation (LWUP)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES; DATA SETS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; LAND SURFACES; LINEAR MODELS; MODEL METHODS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; NUMERICAL MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SANTA BARBARA; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE EMISSIVITIES; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET (SRB); UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; BACKPROPAGATION; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS; STRAIN RELAXATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MODIS; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UPWELLING;

EID: 67349183337     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2005206     Document Type: Article

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