Quality assessment of Landsat surface reflectance products using MODIS data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-22

  Feng, Min ^a,b   Huang, Chengquan ^b   Channan, Saurabh ^b   Vermote, Eric F ^b   Masek, Jeffrey G ^c   Townshend, John R ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Landsat; MODIS; Object oriented programming; Quality assessment; Surface reflectance

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; AUTOMATICALLY MATCH; CONSISTENCY CHECKING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSAT 7; LANDSAT IMAGES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; OPEN-SOURCE LIBRARIES; OPERATIONAL QUALITY; PRIMARY INPUTS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY PROBLEMS; SPECTRAL BAND; STANDARD PRODUCTS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

AUTOMATION; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE MATCHING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RATING; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

RADIOMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA PROCESSING; LANDSAT; MODIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

EID: 82455187947     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.04.011     Document Type: Article

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