Global cloud cover for assessment of optical satellite observation opportunities: A HyspIRI case study

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 126, Issue , 2012, Pages 62-71

  Mercury, M ^a   Green, R ^a   Hook, S ^a   Oaida, B ^a   Wu, W ^a   Gunderson, A ^b   Chodas, M ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloudiness; Global clouds; HyspIRI; Remote sensing; Viewing opportunities

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE COVERAGE; CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; CLOUD MASKS; CLOUDINESS; DATA SETS; GLOBAL CLOUDS; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GLOBAL MAP; GLOBAL STATISTICS; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYSPIRI; IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MISSION CONCEPTS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; OPTICAL SATELLITES; SCIENCE OBJECTIVES; SHALLOW WATERS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; STANDARD DEVIATION; TERRA-MODIS; THERMAL INFRARED; VIEWING OPPORTUNITIES;

MASKS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS;

INSTRUMENTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84865757414     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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