Retrieval of aerosol optical depth and surface reflectance over land from NOAA AVHRR data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 133, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-20

  Li, Yingjie ^a,g   Xue, Yong ^a,b   de Leeuw, Gerrit ^c,d,e   Li, Chi ^f,g   Yang, Leiku ^a   Hou, Tingting ^f,g   Marir, Farhi ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

^f CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Albedo; AVHRR; Bidirectional reflectance; Optical depth; Time series

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL CHARACTERISTICS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; ALBEDO; AQUA MODIS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; AVHRR; BI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTORS; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DARK SURFACES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LONG TIME SERIES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NOAA AVHRR; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; REFLECTIVE PROPERTIES; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMES SERIES;

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

REFLECTION;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODIS; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EUROPE; INDIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAHARA;

EID: 84874513037     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.01.020     Document Type: Article

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