Direct-estimation algorithm for mapping daily land-surface broadband albedo from modis data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 907-919

  Qu, Ying ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Wang, Lizhao ^a   Liu, Nanfeng ^a,c   Liu, Suhong ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular bin regression; direct estimation algorithm; land surface broadband albedo; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); polarization and directionality of the Earth's reflectance (POLDER) bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) database

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR BIN REGRESSION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER; ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE ALBEDO; LAND-SURFACE BROADBAND ALBEDO; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER;

ALGORITHMS; BINS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ENERGY BUDGET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIDAR; MAPPING; MODIS; POLARIZATION; POLDER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTANCE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84891038057     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2245670     Document Type: Article

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