An approach for the long-term 30-m land surface snow-free albedo retrieval from historic Landsat surface reflectance and MODIS-based a priori anisotropy knowledge

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 467-479

  Shuai, Yanmin ^a   Masek, Jeffrey G ^a   Gao, Feng ^b   Schaaf, Crystal B ^c   He, Tao ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo algorithm; Forest disturbance; Landsat; MODIS BRDF

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BUDGET CONTROL; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SNOW; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TABLE LOOKUP;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FOREST DISTURBANCES; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS REGION; LANDSAT; MODIS BRDF; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; LAND SURFACE; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; MODIS; SATELLITE MISSION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND COVER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONALITY; TERRAIN;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905387281     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.07.009     Document Type: Article

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