Effect of sastrugi on snow bidirectional reflectance and its application to MODIS data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Kuchiki, Katsuyuki ^a   Aoki, Teruo ^a   Niwano, Masashi ^a   Motoyoshi, Hiroki ^b   Iwabuchi, Hironobu ^c  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; POLES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AZIMUTH ANGLES; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLAT SURFACES; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; HEMISPHERICAL-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTORS; HOKKAIDO; ICE SHEET; LINEAR RIDGES; MODEL SIMULATION; MODERATE RES-OLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MONTE CARLO; MULTI-ANGLE DATA; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW GRAIN SIZE; SOUTH POLE; SPECTRAL CHANNELS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AZIMUTH; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; GEOMETRY; GRAIN SIZE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; ICE SHEET; MODIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; SOUTH POLE;

EID: 80053378668     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016070     Document Type: Article

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