Semi-empirical approach for estimating broadband albedo of snow

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2086-2095

  Malik, M Jahanzeb ^a,b   van der Velde, Rogier ^a   Vekerdy, Zoltan ^a   Su, Zhongbo ^a   Salman, M Fahad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Albedo; DISORT; MODIS; Snow

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ALBEDO ESTIMATION; ANISOTROPIC REFLECTANCE; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; DEVELOPED MODEL; DISCRETE ORDINATE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; DISORT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LAMBERTIAN REFLECTANCE; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MEAN ERRORS; METAMORPHIC PROCESS; MODEL ESTIMATES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NEAR INFRARED; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SCATTERING ANGLES; SEMI-EMPIRICAL APPROACH; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; SNOW GRAIN SIZE; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SPECTRAL ALBEDOS; STANDARD DEVIATION; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCANNING; SOLAR RADIATION;

SNOW;

ALBEDO; ANISOTROPY; BROADBAND DATA; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTANCE; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; WAVELENGTH; ZENITH ANGLE;

LAMBERTIA;

EID: 79957609169     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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