Evaluation of MODIS albedo product (MCD43A) over grassland, agriculture and forest surface types during dormant and snow-covered periods

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 60-77

  Wang, Zhuosen ^a   Schaaf, Crystal B ^a   Strahler, Alan H ^b   Chopping, Mark J ^c   Román, Miguel O ^d   Shuai, Yanmin ^d,e   Woodcock, Curtis E ^b   Hollinger, David Y ^f   Fitzjarrald, David R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

^f USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station   (United States)

^g STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest; Grassland; MODIS standard and daily albedo product; Snow albedo; Spatial representativeness

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; FOREST; GRASSLAND; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS STANDARD AND DAILY ALBEDO PRODUCT; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIVENESS; SURFACE HETEROGENEITIES;

FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION;

SNOW;

AGROFORESTRY; ALBEDO; DORMANCY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY; SNOW; SUN LIGHT;

EID: 84884239610     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.08.025     Document Type: Article

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