Retrieval of aerosol optical depth over bright land surfaces by coupling bidirectional reflectance distribution function model and aerosol retrieval model

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 577-584

  Guang, Jie ^a   Xue, Yong ^a,b   Li, Yingjie ^a,c   Liang, Shunlin ^a,d   Mei, Linlu ^a,c   Xu, Hui ^a,c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL RETRIEVAL; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; AQUA MODIS; BEIJING , CHINA; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; CLOSE COUPLING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LAND SURFACE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE SIGNALS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; EQUATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84863262983     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.642322     Document Type: Article

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