Validation of the Climate-SAF surface broadband albedo product: Comparisons with in situ observations over Greenland and the ice-covered Arctic Ocean

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2779-2790

  Riihelä, Aku ^a   Laine, Vesa ^a   Manninen, Terhikki ^a   Palo, Timo ^b   Vihma, Timo ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Albedo; AVHRR; Sea ice; Snow; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; AVHRR; BARE SOILS; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; CONVERSION ALGORITHM; DATA SETS; FLOATING ICE; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; GROUND TRUTH; HETEROGENEOUS SURFACE; ICE SHEET; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; SURFACE ALBEDO; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; VALIDATION; VALIDATION STUDY; WEATHER STATIONS; WEST COAST;

ALGORITHMS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GLACIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OVERPASSES; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SNOW;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; AVHRR; BARE SOIL; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SNOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER STATION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND;

EID: 77956173916     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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