Preliminary analysis of the performance of the Landsat 8/OLI land surface reflectance product

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 185, Issue , 2016, Pages 46-56

  Vermote, Eric ^a   Justice, Chris ^b   Claverie, Martin ^a,b   Franch, Belen ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ALGORITHM; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET NETWORKS; THERMAL INFRARED SENSORS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AERONET; AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; VIIRS; WAVELENGTH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964645155     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.04.008     Document Type: Article

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