An assessment of the black ocean pixel assumption for MODIS SWIR bands

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1587-1597

  Shi, Wei ^a,b   Wang, Menghua ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction for turbid waters; Black ocean pixel assumption; Ocean color remote sensing; Shortwave infrared bands

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION FOR TURBID WATERS; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; BLACK OCEAN PIXEL ASSUMPTION; BLACK PIXELS; COASTAL OCEAN; COASTAL WATERS; EAST COAST; HANGZHOU BAY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEAR-INFRARED BANDS; OCEAN COLOR PRODUCTS; OCEAN COLOR REMOTE SENSING; OCEAN RADIANCE; SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSORS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SHORTWAVE INFRARED BANDS; SURFACE EFFECT; TURBID WATER; WATER-LEAVING RADIANCES;

ATMOSPHERICS; COLOR; INFRARED DEVICES; LANDFORMS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; COASTAL WATER; MODIS; NEAR INFRARED; OCEAN COLOR; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAWIFS; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TURBIDITY;

EID: 67349229544     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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