A general method to normalize Landsat reflectance data to nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 176, Issue , 2016, Pages 255-271

  Roy, D P ^a   Zhang, H K ^a   Ju, J ^b,c   Gomez Dans, J L ^d,e   Lewis, P E ^d,e   Schaaf, C B ^f   Sun, Q ^f   Li, J ^a   Huang, H ^a   Kovalskyy, V ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF); Landsat; MODIS; NBAR

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORWARD SCATTERING; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; SPACE OPTICS;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT-5 (L5) THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; NBAR; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SURFACE BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

REFLECTION;

ALBEDO; ANISOTROPY; BACKSCATTER; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; GEOMETRY; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; NADIR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; ZENITH ANGLE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84957685409     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.01.023     Document Type: Article

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