Intercomparison of Landsat albedo retrieval techniques and evaluation against in situ measurements across the US SURFRAD network

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 627-637

  Franch, B ^a,b   Vermote, E F ^b   Claverie, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BRDF; Landsat; MODIS; Surface albedo

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENERGY BALANCE; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; BRDF; LANDSAT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SURFACE ALBEDO; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERCOMPARISONS; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LANDSAT; MODIS; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907092727     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.07.019     Document Type: Article

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