Direct estimation of land surface albedo from VIIRS data: Algorithm improvement and preliminary validation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 12,577-12,586

  Wang, Dongdong ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a   He, Tao ^a   Yu, Yunyue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

albedo; direct estimation; MODIS; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; INFRARED IMAGING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PIXELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION; TABLE LOOKUP;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; VIIRS; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

RADIOMETERS;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; DATA SET; ENERGY FLUX; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODIS; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84890513318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020417     Document Type: Article

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