Development of a hybrid method for estimating land surface shortwave net radiation from MODIS data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2393-2402

  Kim, Hye Yun ^a,b   Liang, Shunlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Daily integrated shortwave net radation; Land surface; MODIS; Multispectral; Shortwave net radiation

Indexed keywords

DAILY INTEGRATED SHORTWAVE NET RADATION; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NET RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

RADIATION;

ALGORITHM; CLEAR SKY; DATA SET; EOS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NET RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; REMOTE SENSING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956190834     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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