Fusion of satellite land surface albedo products across scales using a multiresolution tree method in the north central United States

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3428-3439

  He, Tao ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Wang, Dongdong ^a   Shuai, Yanmin ^c,d   Yu, Yunyue ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; data fusion; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR); multiresolution tree (MRT); Thematic Mapper (TM)

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA FUSION; FORESTRY; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSORS; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ALBEDO; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MULTIANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MULTIRESOLUTION; THEMATIC MAPPERS;

RADIOMETRY;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; GROUND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MISR; MODIS; PIXEL; RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR;

DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSORS; SUN LIGHT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896391719     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2272935     Document Type: Article

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