Atmospheric correction at AERONET locations: A new science and validation data set

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2450-2466

  Wang, Yujie ^a,b   Lyapustin, Alexei I ^a,b   Privette, Jeffery L ^c   Morisette, Jeffery T ^d   Holben, Brent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; AERONET; AEROSOL FILTERS; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; BI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTORS; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; BITMAP IMAGES; CLOUD MASKS; DATA COVERAGE; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; GRIDDING ALGORITHMS; HIGH QUALITY; INHOMOGENEITY; INPUT DATA; ITS DATA; LEVEL-1; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS-AQUA; NEW SCIENCE; NEW SOLUTIONS; OPERATIONAL DATA; PARAMETERIZED; PROCESSING SOFTWARE; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCIENCE RESEARCH; SUB PIXELS; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE CHANGES; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; THREE PARAMETERS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; VALIDATION ANALYSIS; VALIDATION DATA;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; FILTRATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE SENSORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; SET THEORY; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

DATA PROCESSING;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; MODIS; PIXEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 67949111063     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2016334     Document Type: Article

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