Characterization of Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8 top of atmosphere, surface, and nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance and NDVI differences

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 215, Issue , 2018, Pages 482-494

  Zhang, Hankui K ^a   Roy, David P ^a   Yan, Lin ^a   Li, Zhongbin ^a   Huang, Haiyan ^a   Vermote, Eric ^b   Skakun, Sergii ^b,c   Roger, Jean Claude ^b,c  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Differences; Landsat 8 OLI; NDVI; Reflectance; Sentinel 2 MSI

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; ORBITS; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATA COMPARISONS; DIFFERENCE; LANDSAT; LANDSAT-8 OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER; SENTINEL-2 MULTI SPECTRAL INSTRUMENT; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

LANDSAT;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LANDSAT; NADIR; NDVI; NEAR INFRARED; PIXEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SENTINEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 85046147215     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.031     Document Type: Article

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