Providing uncertainty estimates of the Sentinel-2 top-of-atmosphere measurements for radiometric validation activities

European Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 650-666

  Gorroño, Javier ^a,b   Hunt, Samuel ^a   Scanlon, Tracy ^a   Banks, Andrew ^a   Fox, Nigel ^a   Woolliams, Emma ^a   Underwood, Craig ^b   Gascon, Ferran ^c   Peters, Marco ^d   Fomferra, Norman ^d   Govaerts, Yves ^e   Lamquin, Nicolas ^f   Bruniquel, Veronique ^f  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^d Brockmann Consult GmbH   (Germany)

^e Rayference   (Belgium)

^f ACRI ST   (France)

Author keywords

correlation; radiometric validation; Sentinel 2; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PIXELS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION;

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; RADIOMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; RADIOMETRIC VALIDATION; SENTINEL-2; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CORRELATION; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY CONTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PIXEL; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SATELLITE MISSION; SENTINEL; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85047989833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22797254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2018.1471739     Document Type: Article

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