The global land surface satellite (GLASS) remote sensing data processing system and products

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2436-2450

  Zhao, Xiang ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Liu, Suhong ^a   Yuan, Wenping ^a   Xiao, Zhiqiang ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a,a   Cheng, Jie ^a   Zhang, Xiaotong ^a   Tang, Hairong ^c   Zhang, Xin ^a   Zhou, Gongqi ^a   Xu, Shuai ^a   Yu, Kai ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

GLASS products; High performance computing; Product generation system; Remote sensing; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX COMPUTING SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; GLASS PRODUCTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRODUCT GENERATION; SATELLITE DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; GLASS; SATELLITES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84880385046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5052436     Document Type: Article

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