Land surface albedos computed from BRF measurements with a study of conversion formulae

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1918-1940

  Peltoniemi, Jouni I ^a   Manninen, Terhikki ^b   Suomalainen, Juha ^a   Hakala, Teemu ^a   Puttonen, Eetu ^a   Riihelä, Aku ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Albedo; Climate; FIGIFIGO; Goniometer; Measurement; Reflectance; Remote sensing; Satellite; Snow; Spectrometer; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; BI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTORS; CLIMATE; DATA SETS; DIRECT INTEGRATION; FIGIFIGO; FINNISH; IN-LINE; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE ALBEDO; POLYNOMIAL INTERPOLATION; SURFACE ALBEDO; ZENITH ANGLE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 80051869138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2081918     Document Type: Article

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