An historical empirical line method for the retrieval of surface reflectance factor from multi-temporal SPOT HRV, HRVIR and HRG multispectral satellite imagery

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 292-307

  Clark, Barnaby ^a   Suomalainen, Juha ^b   Pellikka, Petri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction; Empirical line correction; Reflectance factor retrieval; SPOT

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CALIBRATION; EARTH STRUCTURE; LAND COVER; NADIR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

COAST PROVINCE; ETELA SUOMEN; FINLAND; HELSINKI; KENYA; TAITA HILLS;

EID: 79955620280     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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