Examination of Sentinel-2A multi-spectral instrument (MSI) reflectance anisotropy and the suitability of a general method to normalize MSI reflectance to nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 199, Issue , 2017, Pages 25-38

  Roy, David P ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Zhang, Hankui K ^a   Yan, Lin ^a   Huang, Haiyan ^a   Li, Zhongbin ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF); Landsat; MODIS; NBAR; Sentinel 2

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; RADIOMETERS;

AFRICA; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LANDSAT; MODIS; NBAR; SENTINEL-2;

REFLECTION;

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CALIBRATION; LANDSAT; METHODOLOGY; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NADIR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SCATTERING; SENTINEL; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; ZENITH ANGLE;

AFRICA;

EID: 85023617940     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.019     Document Type: Article

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