Estimating the effective spatial resolution of the operational BRDF, albedo, and nadir reflectance products from MODIS and VIIRS

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 175, Issue , 2016, Pages 52-64

  Campagnolo, Manuel L ^a   Sun, Qingsong ^b   Liu, Yan ^b   Schaaf, Crystal ^b   Wang, Zhuosen ^c   Román, Miguel O ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; BRDF; Gridded spatial resolution; MCD43; MODIS; NBAR; VIIRS; VNP43

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; REFLECTION; SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; BRDF; MCD43; MODIS; NBAR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VIIRS; VNP43;

RADIOMETERS;

ALBEDO; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; MODIS; NADIR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; VIIRS;

EID: 84953331866     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.033     Document Type: Article

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