The variations and trends of MODIS C5 & C6 products' errors in the recent decade over the background and Urban Areas of North China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Qi ^a,b   Xin, Jinyuan ^a,b   Yin, Yan ^a   Wang, Lili ^b   Wang, Yuesi ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD); C5; C6; Error; MODIS; Trend

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; NASA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ANGSTROM EXPONENT; ESTIMATION ERRORS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; SURFACE REFLECTIVITY; TREND;

ERRORS;

EID: 85019378655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090754     Document Type: Article

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