Unmanned aerial system nadir reflectance and MODIS nadir BRDF-adjusted surface reflectances intercompared over Greenland

Cryosphere

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1575-1589

  Faulkner Burkhart, John ^a,b   Kylling, Arve ^c   Schaaf, Crystal B ^d   Wang, Zhuosen ^e,f   Bogren, Wiley ^g   Storvold, Rune ^h   Solbø, Stian ^h   Pedersen, Christina A ⁱ   Gerland, Sebastian ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^h Northern Research Institute (Norut)   (Norway)

ⁱ NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; ALBEDO; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; MODIS; NADIR; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; SUMMIT;

EID: 85021739940     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-11-1575-2017     Document Type: Article

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