Validation of six satellite-retrieved land surface emissivity products over two land cover types in a hyper-arid region

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 149-158

  Göttsche, Frank M ^a   Hulley, Glynn C ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ASTER; Emissivity box method; Generalized split window method; Hyper arid region; Land surface emissivity; MODIS; SEVIRI; Temperature emissivity separation

Indexed keywords

ASTER; EMISSIVITY BOX METHOD; HYPER-ARID REGION; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; SEVIRI; SPLIT-WINDOW METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; ARID REGIONS; ESTIMATION; GRAVEL; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEPARATION; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

ALGORITHM; ARID REGION; ASTER; DATA SET; DUNE; EMISSIVITY; EOS; GRASS; GRAVEL; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; METEOSAT; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVIRI; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA;

EID: 84861939355     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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