Mapping surface broadband albedo from satellite observations: A review of literatures on algorithms and products

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 990-1020

  Qu, Ying ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Liu, Qiang ^a   He, Tao ^b   Liu, Suhong ^a   Li, Xiaowen ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF); Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS); Remote sensing; Surface albedo; Surface energy budget

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MAPPING; ORBITS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL LAND SURFACE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

EID: 84980024619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70100990     Document Type: Article

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